HOMECOMING SAGA. VOLUME 1. THE MEMORY OF EARTH. VOLUME 2. THE CALL OF EARTH. VOLUME 3. THE SHIPS OF EARTH. VOLUME 4. EARTHFALL. VOLUME 5. EARTHBORN. 5 VOLUME SET. by Card, Orson Scott

New York: TOR Five volume set - 6 3/4" H. B&w maps by Ellisa Mitchell. 1. The Memory of Earth - 332 pp, 1993 4th printing, ISBN 0812532597. "High above the planet Harmony, the Oversoul watches. Its task, programmed so many millenia 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. The Oversoul has done its job well. There is no war on Harmony. There is no technology that could lead to weapons of war. By control of the data banks, and subtle interference in the very thoughts of the people, the artificial intelligence has fulfilled its mission. But now there is a problem. In orbit, the Oversoul realizes that it has lost access to some of its memory banks, and some of its power systems are failing. And on the planet, men are beginning to think about power, wealth, and conquest. 2. The Call of Earth - 332 pp, 1994 2nd printing, ISBN 0812532619. "As Harmony's Oversoul grows weaker, a great warrior has arisen to challenge the bans. His name is Moozh, and he has won control of the army using forbidden technology. Now he is aiming his soldiers at the city of Basilica, that strong fortress above the Plain. Basilica remains in turmoil. Wetchik and his sons are not strong enough to stop an army. Can Rasa and her allies defeat him through intrigue, or will Moozh take the city and all who are in it? 3. The Ships of Earth - 362 pp, 1995 1st printing, ISBN 0812532635. "The city of Basilica has fallen. Now Wetchik, Nafai, and all their family must brave the desert wastes, and cross the wide continent to where Harmony's hidden 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 few have chosen their exile. The others, Rasa's spiteful daughters, their husbands, and Wetchik's oldest son, Elemak, have been forced against their will. Their anger and hatreds will make the difficult journey harder." 4. Earthfall - 370 pp, 1996 1st printing, ISBN 0812532961. "The Oversoul of the colony planet Harmony selected the family of Wetchik to carry it back to long-lost Earth. Now grown to a tribe in the years of their journey to Harmony's hidden starport, they are ready at last to take a ship to the stars. But from the beginning there has been bitter dispute between Nafai and Elemak, Wetchik's youngest son and his oldest. On board the starship 'Basilica', the children of the tribe will become pawns in the struggle. Two factions are each making secret plans to awaken the children, and themselves, early from the cold-sleep capsules in which they will pass the long decades of the journey. Each side hopes to gain years of influence on the minds of the children, winning their loyalty in the struggle for control of reclaimed Earth. But the Oversoul is truly in control of this journey. It has downloaded a complete copy of itself to the Ship's computers. And only Nafai, who wears the Cloak of the Starmaster by the Oversoul's command, really understands what this will mean to all their plans for the future! 5. Earthborn - 430 pp, 1996 2nd printing, ISBN 0812532988. "High above the Earth orbits the starship 'Basilica'. On board the huge vessel is a sleeping woman. Of those who made the journey, Shedemai alone has survived the hundreds of years since the Children of Wetchik returned to Earth. She now wears the Cloak of the Starmaster, and the Oversoul wakes her sometimes to watch over her descendants on the planet below. The population has grown rapidly - there are cities and nations now, whole peoples descended from those who followed Nafai or Elemak. But in all the long years of watching and searching, the Oversoul has not found the thing it sought. It has not found the Keeper of Earth, the central intelligence that alone can repair the Oversoul's damaged programming." Interiors - two volumes with light to moderate browning to the inside of the covers, one volume has a bookstore small stamp and old price in ink on the first page, otherwise volumes are clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exteriors - minor wrinkling on the spine of two volumes, light edge wear, one or two small corner creases on some covers, one volume has a slight lean. . Mass Market Paperbacks. Very Good. Illus. by Keith Parkinson, cover art..