SUMMARY: High above the planet Harmony, the Oversoul watches, programmed forty million years ago to guard the human settlement from all threats, especially themselves. In the latest in the Hugo- and Nebula award-winning author's Homecoming series, the great artificial intelligence has lost control of the population, forbidden technology has been rediscovered, war has broken out, and the only repair lies light years distant on a lost and ruined Earth. "There seems little doubt that the whole series will prove as readable--and as morally committed--as we've come to expect from Card." --Locus

Earthfall: Homecoming: Volume 4 (Homecoming Saga, 4)

Card, Orson Scott

Tom Doherty Associates, LLC

Tor Science Fiction

Forge Books

Homecoming, v. 4, First trade edition, New York, 1995

Homecoming, bk. 04, 1st ed, New York, c1995

United States, United States of America

Homecoming, bk. 4, New York, 1996

1st, First Edition, PT, 1996

topic: Fantasy; Science Fiction; American Science Fiction And Fantasy; Fiction; Fiction-Science Fiction; Science Fiction-Series; Fiction/Science Fiction/General; Science Fiction-General

Type: 英文图书

Bookmarks:
1. (p1) FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS
2. (p2) PROLOGUE
3. (p3) PART I: IF I SHOULD WAKE BEFORE I DIE
3.1. (p4) 1. QUARRELING WITH GOD
3.2. (p5) 2. THE FACE OF THE OLD ONE
3.3. (p6) 3. SECRETS
3.4. (p7) 4. PERSUASION
3.5. (p8) 5. THE EAVESDROPPER
3.6. (p9) 6. THE UGLY GOD
3.7. (p10) 7. A STORM AT SEA
3.8. (p11) 8. UNBOUND
4. (p12) PART II: LANDFALL
4.1. (p13) 9. WATCHERS
4.2. (p14) 10. SEARCHERS
4.3. (p15) 11. HOLES
4.4. (p16) 12. FRIENDS
4.5. (p17) 13. KILLINGS
4.6. (p18) 14. WORDS
4.7. (p19) 15. DIVISIONS
4.8. (p20) 16. STARMASTER

theme: Fantasy; Science Fiction; American Science Fiction And Fantasy; Fiction; Fiction-Science Fiction; Science Fiction-Series; Fiction/Science Fiction/General; Science Fiction-General

<p>The Oversoul of the colony planet Harmony selected the family of Wetchik to carry it back to long-lost Earth. Now grown to a tribe in the years of their journey to Harmony's hidden starport, they are ready at last to take a ship to the stars. But from the beginning there has been bitter dispute between Nafai and Elemak, Wetchick's youngest son and his oldest.</p>
<p>On board the starship <i>Bailica</i>, the children of the tribe will become pawns in the struggle. Two factions are each making secret plans to awaken the children, and themselves, early from the cold-sleep capsules in which they will pass the long decades of the journey. Each side hopes to gain years of influence on the minds of the children, winning their loyalty in the struggle for control of reclaimed Earth.</p>
<p>But the Oversoul is truly in control of this journey. It has downloaded a complete copy of itself to the Ship's computers. And only Nafai, who wears the Cloak of the Starmaster by the Oversoul's command, really understand what this will mean to all their plans for the future.</p>


<p>Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Orson Scott Card's Homecoming Saga continues. Chosen by the Oversoul to be the starship's Master, Nafai must finally confront his older brother Elemak. Yet even while the brothers are battling each other, the Keeper of Earth is preparing his world to receive them.
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Earthfall , the fourth volume in Orson Scott Card's space opera Homecoming series
The Oversoul of the colony planet Harmony selected the family of Wetchik to carry it back to long-lost Earth. Now grown to a tribe in the years of their journey to Harmony's hidden starport, they are ready at last to take a ship to the stars. But from the beginning there has been bitter dispute between Nafai and Elemak, Wetchick's youngest son and his oldest.
On board the starship Bailica , the children of the tribe will become pawns in the struggle. Two factions are each making secret plans to awaken the children, and themselves, early from the cold-sleep capsules in which they will pass the long decades of the journey. Each side hopes to gain years of influence on the minds of the children, winning their loyalty in the struggle for control of reclaimed Earth.
But the Oversoul is truly in control of this journey. It has downloaded a complete copy of itself to the Ship's computers. And only Nafai, who wears the Cloak of the Starmaster by the Oversoul's command, really understand what this will mean to all their plans for the future.
Homecoming series
The Memory of Earth
The Call of Earth
The Ships of Earth
Earthfall
Earthborn

At last, the Wetchik tribe is ready to take a ship to the stars. But from the beginning there has been bitter dispute between Nafai and Elemak, Wetchik's youngest son and his oldest. And only Nefai, who wears the Cloak of the Starmaster by the Oversoul's command, understands what this means to the future of all

Two brothers return to an Earth their ancestors left 40 million years earlier. They are Nafai and Elemak of the planet Harmony, and they are seeking help for their ruling computer which is breaking down. The brothers arrive to find Earth inhabited by winged angels. By the author of The Ships of Earth

The Wetchik tribe is ready to return to Earth to enlist help in fixing the Oversoul. The continuing bitter dispute between Nafai and Elemak threatens the success of this mission.

Vusadka: the place where humans first set foot when their starships brought them to the planet they named Harmony.

2025-02-04