- Fiction, fantasy, epic, Life on other planets, Fiction, Artificial intelligence
On board a starship above Earth, Shedemai sleeps. As lone survivor of the Children of Wetchik, the Oversoul periodically wakes her to watch over her descendants. Despite years of searching, the Oversoul still hasn't located the Keeper of Earth; the only thing that can repair it's damaged programming.
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Grave, earnest, contemporary and epic.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Orson Scott Card
- First published
- 1995
- Pages
- 430
- Publisher
- Tandem Library, J'ai lu, Blackstone Pub
- Editions
- 14
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781857239829
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Orson Scott Card is an American novelist, critic, public speaker, essayist and columnist. He writes in several genres but is known best for science fiction. His novel Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel Speaker for the Dead (1986) both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the only author to win both science fiction's top U.S. prizes in consecutive years.
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