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The Worthing Chronicle
First edition
AuthorOrson Scott Card
Cover artistDon Maitz
LanguageEnglish
SeriesThe Worthing series
GenreScience fiction
PublisherAce Books
Publication date
1983
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages272 pp
ISBN0-441-91810-7
OCLC9980726

The Worthing Chronicle (1983) is a science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card set in the Worthing series. This book by itself is out of print having been published along with nine short stories in the collection The Worthing Saga (1990).

Plot summary

Jason Worthing and one of his descendants, Justice, go to a small village on a backward world to get a boy named Lared to write a book for them. This book is about why Abner Doon destroyed the empire and the planet Capitol and why Jason's descendants destroyed the planet Worthing. It also explains why people all over the settled part of the galaxy are no longer being protected by "God" from pain and hardship.

The Worthing Chronicle is an expansion of Card’s first novel, Hot Sleep.

See also