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The Worthing Chronicle (1983) is a science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card. This book by itself is out of print having been published along with nine short stories in the collection The Worthing Saga (1990).
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Jason Worthing and one of his decedents Justice go to a small village on a backward world to get a boy named Lared to write a book for them. This book is about why Abner Doon destroyed the empire and the planet Capitol and why Jason's decedents destroyed the planet Worthing. It also explains why people all over the settled part of the galaxy are no longer being protected by "God" from pain and hardship.
[edit] Relationship with Hot Sleep
The Worthing Chronicle is an expansion of Card’s first novel Hot Sleep which is now permanently out of print.
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