This is an early version of the book that became The Worthing Saga. It contains some stories not found in that later book. It is well worth reading.

Travelling to a friend who knows what to do with temptation - give in!

Wicked, wicked, Wistful you sent some yummy chocolate with this! THANK YOU An early Orson Scott Card how exciting, think it may be the earliest I have read so it will be interesting to see if I can spot any difference between this and later work.

Oh yea, want to let you know this actually arrived on the 1st of March but as I was away it lingered in the PO collection centre till today!

ADDED Sun 24, Feb 2008: Hum, it seems I picked this up a couple of years ago and read a few of the stories but I was interrupted and didn’t feel driven to get back to it. I have decided it deserved further opportunity to travel so I took it along to a fun mini-meet we had today, held to welcome from Finland, visiting Sobergirl and erinne who just moved to Edinburgh last week! It was really nice to meet these lovely Finnish BookCrossers and I am sure the bookcrossing community will be thrilled to meet erinne’s partner as well when she comes to live in Edinburgh later in the year!

RELEASE NOTES:

released at the mini-meet as detailed above.
Happy reading!

A good set of short stories. Easy to see early on the difference between a long life and a full life.

Picked up from the meetup on the 12:th. To be read. Thank you!

Erinne took this book from the meet-up, and planned to read it on the plane. However, he didn't have time to read it after all, and now he's all busy moving, and has asked me to release the book here in Finland instead. I hope that's OK! I was thinking of putting it in a big box that is going to be released in the Finnish annual sci-fi convention Finncon in the summer. I usually get great catches from there.

I was thrilled to spot a mention of me in this journal. :-) I am Erinne's partner, and I'm excited to meet the bookcrossing folks in Edinburgh later on in early summer! I'm just sorry I can't bring all my available books with me to be released there...! I'm sure it's a lovely city and I'll enjoy living there.

Thank you Harmaja for this book too. I kind of guessed what was going on, when you mysteriously PM'd me ;)

I let this book sit on my shelf for so many years before reading it and almost didn't finish, because of the first two stories, but I'm glad I did.

The book contains eleven stories that span centuries on planet Capitol, but it starts on Earth, very outdated retrofuturistic Earth where both the politics and science are embarrassingly old fashioned. I feel weird every time I read old American science fiction where the Soviet Union is condsidered to be a major threat and I feel sad whenever I read science fiction that is based on outdated scientific ideas from the sixties or seventies. But in the middle of all that there was a quote so timely I couldn't stop reading: "No one thought. Nobody gives a damn. For the last five years we've been in the worst situation the world could possibly be in, and no one stopped making money long enough to notice."

Card creates a future history for mankind spans centuries of hopes and fears and human nature, which never really changes no matter where we are. The stories themselves are small, glimpses of lives, but the story of the book itself is huge, telling the tale of an Empire, how it grows, prospers and falls. This is something Card knows how to do. How to put together small and large pieces to create his stories. And in this context it becomes understandable that the story must start with Soviet Union as the totalitarian enemy. Now, decades later it makes me wonder if USA has become what it most feared, too close to what Card describes in the second story. And the second to last story seems to foretell Card's own future of getting stuck on his childhood values. Despite all the wonderfull tales his told.

So the book was small and quick to read but it was so full of thoughts worth thinking that they'll last me a lifetime.

I'm taking this to the local meet-up today.

Took the book from bc-meeting in Tampere. I have had Card's books on my to read-list and finally I got one of his books.

Arrived today

Left near the fountain in the pedestrian zone

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