TY  - BOOK
AU  - Card,Orson Scott
ED  - Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress)
TI  - The Worthing saga
T2  - A Tor book
SN  - 9780812509274
AV  - PS3552.C37 
PY  - 1990///
CY  - New York
PB  - Tom Doherty Associates Book
KW  - Space colonies
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Life on other planets
KW  - Science fiction
N1  - This book brings together all the Worthing stories for the first time in one volume
N2  - It was a miracle of science that permitted human beings to live, if not forever, then for a long, long time. Some people, anyway. The rich, the powerful--they lived their lives at the rate of one year every ten. Somec created two societies: that of people who lived out their normal span and died, and those who slept away the decades, skipping over the intervening years and events. It allowed great plans to be put in motion. It allowed interstellar Empires to be built. It came near to destroying humanity. After a long, long time of decadence and stagnation, a few seed ships were sent out to save our species. They carried human embryos and supplies, and teaching robots, and one man. The Worthing Saga is the story of one of these men, Jason Worthing, and the world he found for the seed he carried
ER  -