by Orson Scott Card · Orbit · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099199410
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«The Call of Earth» is the second science fiction novel in Orson Scott Card's Homecoming series, in paperback (304 pages, in English).
On Harmony, the computer guardian Oversoul is weakening and believes it needs the technology of the Lost Earth; that is why it has led young Nafai to commit murder. As Nafai and his people leave Basilica, Lady Rasa must stop General Moozh, who defies Oversoul's prohibitions with an army of forbidden technology.
Second volume of the Homecoming saga; the work was originally published in 1993 and this Orbit edition is from April 1994.
Orson Scott Card is an American writer known best for his science fiction works. As of 2024, he is the only person to have won a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award in consecutive years, winning both awards for his novel Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel Speaker for the Dead (1986). A feature film adaptation of Ender's Game, which Card coproduced, was released in 2013. Card also wrote the Locus Fantasy Award-winning series The Tales of Alvin Maker (1987–2003). Card's fiction often features characters with exceptional gifts who make difficult choices with high stakes. Card has also written political, religious, and social commentary in his columns and other writing; he has provoked controversy and criticism for his public opposition to homosexuality.
