- Nafai (Fictitious character), Fiction, Life on other planets, artificial intelligence
The planet called Harmony had been settled by humans nearly forty million years before. The colony had been placed under the care of an artificial intelligence, called the Oversoul, high in orbit.
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Grave, epic, classical in form and earnest.
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Orson Scott Card
- First published
- 1992
- Pages
- 320
- Publisher
- Blackstone Audio, Ediciones B, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
- Editions
- 19
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780712654166
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“Nafai woke before dawn on his mat in his father's house.”
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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