The Worthing Saga
Gathering every story about Jason Worthing, this volume includes "The Worthing Chronicle," as well as all of the other stories set on Capitol and later on Jason's colonized planet. It was a miracle of science that permitted human beings to live, if not forever, then for a long, long time. Some people, anyway. The rich, the powerful--they lived their lives at the rate of one year every ten. Somec created two societies: that of people who lived out their normal span and died, and those who slept away the decades, skipping over the intervening years and events. It allowed great plans to be put in motion. It allowed interstellar Empires to be built. It came near to destroying humanity. After a long, long time of decadence and stagnation, a few seed ships were sent out to save our species. They carried human embryos and supplies, and teaching robots, and one man. The Worthing Saga is the story of one of these men, Jason Worthing, and the world he found for the seed he carried. Orson Scott Card is "a master of the art of storytelling" (Booklist), andThe Worthing Sagais a story that only he could have written.
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- If you would like to read some sci-fi that plays with the idea of skipping through life via cryosleep, try The Worthing Saga by Orson Scott Card.
It's one of his earliest works, so it isn't as well-produced as some of his later stuff, but it explores some very interesting ideas.
(This story began life as a different novel called Hot Sleep. Having read both, I honestly can't remember which parts are in which version, but Card himself says he considers The Worthing Saga to be the official version)
(hint: in Card's story, cryotech created a dystopian, not utopian society)
- Thanks for all the suggestions so far. I'll throw in several more favorites that have changed the way I think over the years, in no particular order:
* The Righteous Mind - Jonathan Haidt
* 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen Covey
* The Emperor of all Maladies - Siddhartha Mukherjee
* The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
* Getting Things Done - David Allen
* The Worthing Saga - Orson Scott Card
* The 4-Hour Work Week - Timothy Ferriss
* The 5 Love Languages - Gary Chapman
* The Total Money Makeover - Dave Ramsey
- Hard to say... had you asked me this question 15 years ago, I would have answered without hesitation, The Hobbit and Ender's Game.
Today, it's a bit less clear, but here is what comes to mind.
Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C. Clarke
Worthing Saga - Orson Scott Card
- I'm a huge fan of Orson Scott Card, so take the following with a grain of salt.
Despite "recent interviews" which most people really disagree with, I still think almost all his fiction works are great. So if you liked Ender's Game, be sure to pick up other fiction books by him. I especially recommend "Songmaster" and "The Worthing Saga".
- The Worthing Saga by Orson Scott Card ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Worthing_Saga https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40304.The_Worthing_Saga )
> It was a miracle of science that permitted human beings to live, if not forever, then for a long, long time. Some people, anyway. The rich, the powerful--they lived their lives at the rate of one year every ten. Some created two societies: that of people who lived out their normal span and died, and those who slept away the decades, skipping over the intervening years and events. It allowed great plans to be put in motion. It allowed interstellar Empires to be built.
> It came near to destroying humanity.
> After a long, long time of decadence and stagnation, a few seed ships were sent out to save our species. They carried human embryos and supplies, and teaching robots, and one man. The Worthing Saga is the story of one of these men, Jason Worthing, and the world he found for the seed he carried.
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Freeze Frame Revolution ( https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/36510759 )
> How do you stage a mutiny when you’re only awake one day in a million? How do you conspire when your tiny handful of potential allies changes with each job shift? How do you engage an enemy that never sleeps, that sees through your eyes and hears through your ears, and relentlessly, honestly, only wants what’s best for you? Trapped aboard the starship Eriophora, Sunday Ahzmundin is about to discover the components of any successful revolution: conspiracy, code—and unavoidable casualties.
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Also going to recommend the various Vernor Vinge books:
and the short story "The Peddler's Apprentice" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Collected_Stories_of_Verno... )The Peace War Marooned in Realtime A Deepness in the Sky - I hadn’t read that, but I added it to my list. Sounds interesting.
There have been compound interest sci-fi for a while. I remember the Lazarus Long stories by Heinlein and Orson Scott Card wrote Worthing Saga.
