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Posted by heff_neil (Member # 7010) on :

I am listening (sorry a little lazy here) to The Worthing Saga. Man is it a great book. I am about 1/3rd through it and I really like it. I don't hear much about it on these forums and I didn't see a copy of it in the bookstore, which I thought was strange. Does the book stand completely alone? I noticed some common themes, one in particular is wyrms (don't know the spelling since I am listening) but I wondered if it was related to that book?

Thanks!

Neil

Posted by Audeo (Member # 5130) on :

The Worthing Saga, is based on a number of short stories written by OSC. I think some of them were published in a book called "Hot Sleep." The book does stand completely alone, but it was written around the same time as Wyrms (meaning it too was published before I was born [Smile]

), so it probably has some themes in common with it, though I haven't read Wyrms myself.

One other note, usually this sort of topic gets more notice on 'the other side' meaning that when you get to choose between two forums one is "Books, Films, Food, and Culture" and the other is something like "Discussions about Orson Scott Card" you'd want to choose the "Discussion" rather than the "Books, Films."

Welcome to Hatrack!

Posted by mothertree (Member # 4999) on :

OSC doesn't like the word "theme" and I'm not sure what the right word would be. I guess some elements of the story appear in other works but it exists in its own storytelling universe. Though there is a short story in Maps in a Mirror called "one hundred deaths" that wasn't in Worthing Saga. I guess that story was an alternate present earth story. I say alternate present, but it was near-future dystopia at the time it was written.

Posted by IanO (Member # 186) on :

"A thousand deaths" was part of the worthing universe. It appears in "Capitol". Jerry Crove goes to sleep thinking about how they are the new barbarians to the Russian totalitarian state. Later, in "Skipping Stones" we see the planet that eventually becomes Capitol. It's original name was Crove. The Empress was Rachel Crove, I think, a decendent of the same Jerry Crove who was exiled from the Russian US.