Homecoming Saga · Book 3
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.
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