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The Ships of Earth (Homecoming, Vol 3)
The Ships of Earth - Homecoming, Vol 3
Author: Orson Scott Card
ISBN-13: 9780312856595
ISBN-10: 0312856598
Publication Date: 2/1994
Pages: 382
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Publisher: Tor Books
Book Type: Hardcover
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High above the planet Harmony, the Oversoul watches. Its task, programmed so many mellennia ago, is to guard the human settlement on this planet--to protect this fragile remnant of Earth from all threats. To protect them, most of all, from themselves.

But now the great artificial intelligence is failing. The Oversoul has lost access to some of its memory banks, and some of its power systems are failing. On the planet, the Oversoul is losing control of the population. The only repair lies light-years distant on a lost and ruined Earth; the only way to get there is to teach forbidden technology to a few select people.

But war broke out on Harmony, and in the end the Oversoul's chosen servants--a man named Wetchik and all his family have been cast out. They cannot return on pain of death.

This third volume of the Homecoming Saga brings the Oversoul's chosen people out of the city and across the desert wastes, to where Harmony's spaceport lies silent, abandoned, waiting for the command to make the great interstellar ships ready for flight again. But of these sixteen people, only a handful have chosen their exile; the others, Rasa's spiteful daughters and their husbands, Wetchiks's oldest son, Elemak, have beeen forced along against their will. Their anger and hatreds will make the diffcult journey harder.