The Ships of Earth
- Published
- 1 January 1994
- Pages
- 384
- ISBN-13
- 9780606114738
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Ships of Earth, published in 1994 at 384 pages, follows Nafai's family through their generation-spanning voyage back to a transformed Earth, continuing Card's science-fictional retelling of the Book of Mormon's opening narrative.
Key facts about The Ships of Earth
Orson Scott Card wrote The Ships of Earth, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1994. The book has 384 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780606114738 to find the main one.
The Ships of Earth is book 3 of 5 in the Homecoming Saga series. The series has 5 published books. However, the series starts with The Memory of Earth (1992).
Additionally, Orson Scott Card writes Ender's Game, Tales of Alvin Maker and Ender's Shadow, plus 5 more series. Those series sit on our science fiction, fantasy and historical fiction shelves. Meanwhile, Master Alvin is the latest published Orson Scott Card book on file, from 28 April 2026.
About Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card is an American science fiction author best known for Ender's Game, a 1985 novel following a child military prodigy trained to command Earth's defense against an alien threat, which won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards and remains one of the most widely read science fiction novels of its era, particularly popular as an entry point for younger and reluctant readers. See every Orson Scott Card book in order.
Its place in Homecoming Saga
The Ships of Earth is book 3 in the Homecoming Saga series. It follows The Call of Earth. It is followed by Earthfall. 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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780606114738