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Title: The Ships of Earth : Homecoming: Volume 3 by Orson Scott Card ISBN: 0-8125-3263-5 Publisher: Tor Science Fiction Pub. Date: 15 January, 1995 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.76 (21 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent continuation of the story.
Comment: While the reader doesn't really get to experience the actual ships of Earth in this book, it is still really enjoyable. The character interactions in this one are absolutely wonderful, providing realistic representations of human emotion and thought patterns.
The story itself is really good too. With such a misfit group of people thrown together, you'd expect a lot of drama. Well, you won't be disappointed because this book contains a rediculous amount of plotting and planning by two-faced people who all think that they understand everything, while they actually don't have any clue as to what is really going down. Nafai becomes a complete bad ass at the end of this one, and his brothers reach a peak of their treachery.
A really great tale. And only Card can advance seven years of his story in two paragraphs without pissing off the reader!
Rating: 3
Summary: Allegory Attempted
Comment: This is not analogy but allegory. Do not expect a point by point symbolic representation- not even at the level of Lewis' Narnia series. Card builds upon the Old Testament myths to create a world 40 million years from now, on a planet far, far away. He appears to not want to guess at how the Patriarchs might have lived in this place and time, or try to recreate their lives, as much as to use those same stories, and play with them, tweak them, and use the universal themes within the stories of Genesis to tell us something of life and humanity. So we see here the infighting between Jacob and Esau, as Jacob is younger brother to Esau, and also the strife between Joseph and his brothers, for Joseph has the special coat, and even more horribly, the special contact with Father and God. And here is the wandering in the desert of Moses, as they search for a promised land (promised by the oversoul computer), while all the while the followers gripe and complain and seek to return to the place where they were safe and happy, rather then risking with the promises of God/supercomputer.
Interesting character development, and, as opposed to the first book in the series, some serious plot development too. I found myself inspired to trust in God more, to trust whatever the plans were that She might have (as the oversoul is referred to), and I to think to listen to God, when He might be speaking. One of the benefits of science fiction is it can get inside your brain. After putting this book down, I found myself trying to be constantly attuned to that inner voice of the Spirit, for what God might have to say to me.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent Book
Comment: OSC makes a great transition taking the charachters to the ships of Earth. It really brings out Elemak and Nafai's charachters.
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Title: The Memory of Earth by Orson Scott Card ISBN: 0812532597 Publisher: Tor Science Fiction Pub. Date: 15 January, 1993 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Shadow Puppets (Ender, Book 7) by Orson Scott Card ISBN: 0765340054 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 03 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Shadow of the Hegemon by Orson Scott Card ISBN: 0812565959 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 09 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Children of the Mind by Orson Scott Card ISBN: 0812522397 Publisher: Tor Science Fiction Pub. Date: 15 June, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Xenocide : Volume Three of the Ender Quartet by Orson Scott Card ISBN: 0812509250 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: 15 August, 1992 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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