The Ships of Earth

by Orson Scott Card

Book Overview

The City of Basilica has fallen. Now Wetchik, Nafai, and all their family must brave the desert wastes, and cross the wide continents to where Harmony's hidden spaceport lies silent, abandoned,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312856598
• ISBN13: 9780312856595
• Release Date: February 1994
• Publisher: Tor Books
• Length: 382 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Book

OSC makes a great transition taking the charachters to the ships of Earth. It really brings out Elemak and Nafai's charachters.

The third installment is just as good as the second.

If you're wondering, I loved the second; I also liked the first one. I love the character, Nephai, and his wife, Luet. If you're into complex characters and can really get involved with them, AND you read the first two books, SHIPS is as good as they get.

Magnificent - But not for kids.

As an Orson Scott Card fan, I can truly say that this book is a masterpiece. Third in the Homecoming series, it moves the story well, and carries it through numerous new scenarios and stark and beautiful landscapes. Several scenes in the book had be reading late in to the night, then jumping out of bed and cheering out loud at the success of my favorite character, Nafai. However, much of the novel deals with mature subjects like sex and the matriarchal/patriarchal struggle. For those who enjoy science fiction and can handle mature subjects, it's a must-read!

an excellent book, a must read!

left me craving for the next book

The excellent third entry to an excellent series

A master computer, the Oversoul, has kept watch over the people on the planet Harmony for the last 40 million years. However, the Oversoul was never intended to last that long and it is failing. This third entry into the series that began with "The Memories of Earth" is a continuation of the Oversoul's plan to return to Earth with the help of the humans it has chosen for the task. Once again, readers join characters introduced in the previous two novels as they journey to the site where humanity first landed on the planet Harmony. Along the way, they have to overcome obstacles, most of them from within the party itself, as the dreams, desires, and ambitions of the characters come into conflict with the plans of the Oversoul. The strength of this book lies in the complexity of the characters and in the well developed storyline. Overall, it is an excellent novel and readers who enjoyed the first two novels will not be disappointed with this one. In fact, you'll start looking for the fourth book.