Books

Welcome to the beta version of Shelfari’s new Book Detail pages!

These pages are editable by the community, so please contribute! Click here to learn more about this feature. We’d love to hear your feedback.

see page history

Description

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... read more

Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis

Write a ridiculously simplified synopsis.

Memorable Quotes

  • “Grandma died tonight, like a fly in the fire she died! Like a squirrel in the fox's teeth, thought Lared. Like a lizard in a the cat's mouth, trembling.”

First Sentence

In many places in the Peopled Worlds, the pain came suddenly in the midst of the day's labor.

Series

This is book 4 in the The Worthing Series series.

Authors & Contributors

  1. Orson Scott Card
 

Books with Additional Background Information

List the books that contain additional information about this book.

Books That Influenced This Book

List the books that influenced this book.


If you have any suggestions for how we can improve this page or if there are sections that you would like us to add, please let us know.