The Worthing Saga

The Worthing Saga

Author	Orson Scott Card
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	The Worthing series
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	Tor Books
Publication date	1990
Media type	Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages	488 pp
ISBN	0-8125-0927-7
OCLC	22702527

The Worthing Saga (1990) is a science fiction book by American writer Orson Scott Card, set in the Worthing series. It is made up of the novel The Worthing Chronicle (1982) and nine related stories. Six of the stories are from Card’s short story collection Capitol (1979) and the other three are early works, two of them previously unpublished.

Story list

The stories in this book are:

The Worthing Chronicle (1982) - novel
Tales of Capitol (1979)
- "Skipping Stones" (1979)
- "Second Chance" (1979)
- "Lifeloop" (1979)
- "Breaking the Game" (1979)
- "Killing Children" (1979)
- "And What Will We Do Tomorrow?" (1979)
Tales from the Forest of Waters
- "Worthing Farm" (1990) - previously unpublished
- "Worthing Inn" (1990) - previously unpublished
- "The Tinker" (1980) - first published in Eternity SF

Character list

Ordered from oldest to youngest by non-relative age

Mother
Herman Nuber
Abner Doon
Jason Worthing
Justice
Lared

External links

About the book The Worthing Saga from Card's website

Works by Orson Scott Card

Ender's Game

Books	Ender's Game (1985) Speaker for the Dead (1986) Xenocide (1991) Children of the Mind (1996) Ender's Shadow (1999) Shadow of the Hegemon (2001) Shadow Puppets (2002) First Meetings (2002) Shadow of the Giant (2005) A War of Gifts: An Ender Story (2007) Ender in Exile (2008) Shadows in Flight (2012) Earth Unaware (2012) Earth Afire (2013) Earth Awakens (2014) The Swarm (2016) Shadows Alive (TBA)

Short stories	"Ender's Game" (1977) "Gloriously Bright" (1991) "Investment Counselor" "The Polish Boy" "Teacher's Pest" "Mazer in Prison" "Pretty Boy" "Cheater" "A Young Man with Prospects" "The Gold Bug" "Ender's Stocking" "Ender's Homecoming" "Ender in Flight"

Other media	Comics Film

Characters	Ender Wiggin Formics Jane

Concepts	Organizations Planets

The Tales of Alvin Maker

Books	Seventh Son (1987) Red Prophet (1988) Prentice Alvin (1989) Alvin Journeyman (1995) Heartfire (1998) The Crystal City (2003) Master Alvin (TBA)

Short stories	"Prentice Alvin and the No-Good Plow" (poem, 1989) "The Grinning Man" (1998) "The Yazoo Queen" (2003) "Alvin and the Apple Tree" (2014)

Other media	Red Prophet: The Tales Of Alvin Maker (comic book, 2006)

Other works

Homecoming Saga

The Memory of Earth (1992)
The Call of Earth (1992)
The Ships of Earth (1994)
Earthfall (1995)
Earthborn (1995)

Women of Genesis

Sarah (2000)
Rebekah (2001)
Rachel and Leah (2004)
The Wives of Israel (TBA)
The Sons of Rachel (TBA)

Mithermages series

Books	The Lost Gate (2011) The Gate Thief (2013)

Short stories	"Sandmagic" (1979) "Stonefather" (2008)

Mayflower series

Lovelock (1994)
Rasputin (TBA)

The Worthing series

Books	Capitol (1979) Hot Sleep (1979) The Worthing Chronicle (1983) The Worthing Saga (1990)

Short stories	"A Sleep and a Forgetting" "A Thousand Deaths" "Skipping Stones" " Second Chance" "Lifeloop" "Breaking the Game" "Burning" "Killing Children" "And What Will We Do Tomorrow?" "When No One Remembers His Name, Does God Retire?" "The Stars That Blink" "Worthing Farm" "Worthing Inn" "The Tinker"

The Empire duet

Empire (2006)
Hidden Empire (2009)

The Pathfinder series

Pathfinder (2010)
Ruins (2012)
Visitors (2014)

Standalone novels

A Planet Called Treason (1979)
Songmaster (1980)
Hart's Hope (1983)
Saints (1983)
Wyrms (1987)
Treason (1988)
The Abyss (1989)
Lost Boys (1992)
Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996)
Treasure Box (1996)
Stone Tables (1997)
Homebody (1998)
Enchantment (1999)
Magic Street (2005)
Invasive Procedures (2007)
Bully and the Beast (TBA)

Story collections

Unaccompanied Sonata and Other Stories (1980)
Cardography (1987)
The Folk of the Fringe (1989)
Maps in a Mirror (1990)
Waterbaby (2001)
Doorways (2002)
Keeper of Dreams (2008)