- Paperback: 294 pages
- Publisher: Legend; paperback / softback edition (13 Aug 1992)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 071265416X
- ISBN-13: 978-0712654166
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,454,563 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Haunting, compulsive, urgently readable...Storytelling genius (INTERZONE )
Certain to be one of the most soughtafter books of the year (LOCUS ) --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
Certain to be one of the most soughtafter books of the year (LOCUS ) --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
LOCUS
'Certain to be one of the most soughtafter books of the year'
--This text refers to an alternate
Paperback
edition.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Orson Scott Card knows how to tell a story. This book is nothing more than the prologue for a five issue epic about our distant relatives on a distant planet in the distant future.
Card develops the characters nicely and the story never gets boring - it's an easy and enjoyable read. But it lacks the incredible imagination Card displayed in "Speaker for the dead", maybe because this time, there are no fascinating aliens present. Instead, we get a society prohibited to think about war (or the necessary means to wage one) by a giant computer in the orbit of the planet. The main character is a 14 year old boy destined to help this computer in returning humankind to Earth - a tough task considering the people on planet Harmony don't even know how to build airplanes.
The book certainly makes me want to read the sequels. But still, it failed to really overwhelm me: The main characters are too often lead by the (no longer) allmighty computer and therefore, they never seem to be in real danger, though Card succeeds in giving at least the feeling of danger. The story lives from its characters interacting and especially from the feature character and its family. I am really eager to see how it will turn out in book 2-5!
10 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Only Orson Scott Card's sound science fiction reputation carried me through the first 100 pages of Memory Of Earth as I fought the urge to resign this novel to the trash can. The notion of a society 40 million years hence living in such primitive ways as portrayed in this novel seems initially audacious, but the underlying importance of the story's setting is unveiled to good effect. Book One of the Homecoming Series takes place on the planet Harmony, home to Mankind with long-forgotten memories of an apocalyptic Earth. The novel is not science fiction in the classical sense since it lacks much of the technical wizardry that would be expected of an advanced civilisation. It is instead, more of a vision of a future society with fundamental tendencies to violence and self-destruction. The result is a novel that examines humanity and raises many thought-provoking questions about Man's morality and stability. It succeeds in whetting the appetite for the remaining four books, whilst not giving too much away, setting the backdrop for an adventure amongst the stars to the once battle-scarred planet Earth.
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Excellent character development and as always with OSC there is a simple yet involved and intricate story. This book has been well thought-out and it's evolution is fluid. I couldn't put it down and it kept me awake wondering how the plot would twist and turn. I actually antiscipated a few outcomes but then again I could never write so fluently and so involved.Well done
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