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The Worthing chronicle
393 pages
A sweeping journey across deep time that explores the heavy burden of shaping humanity's distant future.
What it feels like
Reading this book feels like standing at the edge of deep time, watching the slow, deliberate unfolding of human destiny. The narrative moves at a steady, epic pace, carrying the reader from the hopeful, determined seeding of a new world through a staggering fifteen-thousand-year slumber. Its mood is expansive and reflective, steeped in the awe of vast cosmic scales and the heavy, isolating burden of visionary leadership. The prose captures the grand sweep of a future history, focusing on legacy, survival, and the unintended consequences of trying to outrun a stagnant past. It is a perfect fit for readers who crave classic, sweeping science fiction that wrestles with the profound emotional weight of shaping a civilization and waking up to an unimaginable tomorrow.
- Mood
- expansive
- awe-inspiring
- somber
- anticipatory
- Tone
- earnest
- visionary
- reflective
- epic
- Pace
- steady
- Themes
- the burden of leadership · legacy and descendants · the passage of deep time · building a new civilization · unintended consequences
- The writing
- Grand and sweeping, focusing on the vast scales of time and the heavy weight of human survival.
- The arc
- Moves from the hopeful determination of seeding a new world to the awe and profound uncertainty of awakening in an unimaginable future.
- Who it's for
- Readers who love classic, sweeping science fiction that explores deep time and the heavy responsibilities of shaping the future.
Content notes
- isolation
- loss of one's original era
About the book
This Book is currently out of print. It has been replaced by The Worthing Saga
Jason Worthing was a telepath, and the best of the ark captains sent to seed humankind anew on a hundred new worlds. He vowed that his new world would be different from the stagnant one he had fled. He established his colonists and his descendants; and when he was sure that they would survive, he sealed himself in the last somec chamber in all the galaxy, triggered to awaken him when his world had built a new civilization.
He slept for fifteeen thousand years, And when he awoke, it was to a future he had never dreamed of...
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