Earthfall: Homecoming: Volume 4

by Orson Scott Card

Book Overview

Earthfall, the fourth volume in Orson Scott Card's space opera Homecoming series

The Oversoul of the colony planet Harmony selected the family of Wetchik to carry it back to long-lost Earth. Now grown to a tribe in the years of their journey to Harmony's hidden starport, they are ready at last to take a ship to the stars. But from the beginning there has been bitter dispute between Nafai and Elemak, Wetchick's youngest son...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812532961
• ISBN13: 9780812532968
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Tor Books
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.3" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Homecoming series

Loved the whole Homecoming Series (am currently enjoying book 5, Earthborn) Love all of Orson Scott Card's works, both his sci-fi, as well as his fantasy stuff.

The best in the series, despite the continuing sexism

Well, finally the moment of truth has come, and the actual journey to Earth will begin. I personally, loved the intire series, but if you are one of those who disliked the first three because of the lack of action, than you'll like this one much better. Finally, the tension that has been building gradually since the first book is finally about to explode, and at the worst possible time; during the journey to Earth! The first part of the book chronicles the journey to Earth itself, and the problems they have getting there, and the second part tells of what happens to them once they get there, and gives a very insightful opinion of what Earth might be like forty million years from now; when two other dominent, sentient species have also rison in the absence of human beings. Also, since a lot of people seem confused about this, yes there is a fifth book, but it takes place several hundred years later, and is about how humans can overcome their prejudeces and truly come home at last. Anyway, I really liked this book a lot, and definitely recommend it to those who have been following the series.

Earthfall -- If You Have Read The Series This Far...

If you have read into the Homecoming Saga this far, then Earthfall will not be a disapointment. On Earth, our favorite characters have begun having children and by extending thier family tree the story keeps building, pushing imaginations even further. With two new species included with the space travelers and thier children, you can't help but to be deeply connected, as if you weren't already, to the circumstances that all of the characters face. As The Ships of Earth prepared readers for this ride, Earthfall will have you creating such deep ties to the characters that the last instalment of the Saga could bring tears to your eyes. It did for me...(read the review of Earthborn for that one). Card's Earthfall was written with such magnanimous proportion that I'm starting to choke up thinking about it. Genius.

The Best in the Series

I'm surprised to be just about the only person to say that about this book. I thought this book was fantastic! I still get excited thinking about it. I can't tell you how much I was into this. I might go as far as to say that this is my favorite book of all time. I liked it more than Ender's Game, if that's possible.