Homecoming Saga · Book 1

The Memory of Earth

by Orson Scott Card

Published
1 March 1992
Pages
332
ISBN-13
9780812532593
Type
novel

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About this book

The Memory of Earth opens the Homecoming Saga in March 1992, introducing Harmony -- a planet kept deliberately pre-industrial by the ancient orbiting computer Oversoul -- and the family of Nafai it recruits to journey back to a mythic, half-remembered Earth. It runs 332 pages.

Its place in Homecoming Saga

The Memory of Earth is book 1 in the Homecoming Saga series. It is followed by The Call of Earth. See the full Homecoming Saga reading order.

Forty million years in the future, the last remnants of humanity live on the planet Harmony, kept deliberately primitive and pre-industrial by Oversoul, an ancient orbiting computer originally programmed to prevent the kind of technological self-destruction that drove humans off Earth in the first place. When Oversoul's degrading circuits threaten to fail and release Harmony's people into unrestrained technological development, it recruits the family of Nafai to journey back to a mythic, half-remembered Earth and…

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