Deze epische sciencefiction-saga onderzoekt de toekomst van de mensheid nadat ze de verwoeste Aarde hebben verlaten voor een nieuw thuis op de planeet Harmony. Hier worden ze beschermd door een kunstmatige intelligentie, de Oversoul genaamd, die conflicten en gevaarlijke technologieën onderdrukt. Na talloze millennia begint de Oversoul echter te falen, wat een gevaarlijke reis terug naar de Aarde noodzakelijk maakt. Hun missie is het vinden van de legendarische Bewaarder van de Aarde, de entiteit die de Oversoul zelf heeft geïnspireerd, en zo de mensheid te redden van de vergetelheid.
Het eerste deel van de cyclus De Kronieken van de Thuisvaart, De herinnering aan Aarde, begint op de planeet Harmonie, die al zo'n slordige dertig miljoen jaar wordt bestuurd door een (bijna) almachtige supercomputer, de Allesziener. Om de mens eronder te houden werden fenomenen als oorlog, reizen-met-lichtsnelheid en bestuurlijke dwingelandij keer op keer door deze mega-dictator uitgevonden. Zo legde de Allesziener de mens zijn wil op, zo verzekerde hij zich van zijn alleenheerschappij. De gevolgen zijn echter verstrekkend als de Allesziener plotseling hapert...
Volume Two of the Homecoming saga, continuing the story of Nafai, his family, and the few others selected by the Oversoul to leave Basilica. Now as the Oversoul grows weaker, a great warrior has arisen and taken control of a great army using forbidden technology. Can Rasa and her allies defeat him through intrigue?
The City of Basilica has fallen. With the continuing failure of the Oversoul, the artificially intelligent guardian computer of the planet Harmony, the human colonists have begun to repeat the devastations of war and conquest wrought on Earth. To repair itself and avert disaster, the Oversoul has called a group of sixteen refugees from the fallen city of Basilica to a hidden, abandoned spaceport where the ancient starships lie. Now Wetchik, Nafai, and all their family must brave the desert wastes and cross the wide continents, guided by the voice of the Oversoul, to await the command to prepare the great interstellar ships for flight again. But among this group, not all have chosen their exile, and the angry resentment of those who were forced to join will make the difficult journey harder.
Earthfall , the fourth volume in Orson Scott Card's space opera Homecoming seriesThe 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, Wetchick's youngest son and his oldest.On board the starship Bailica , 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 understand what this will mean to all their plans for the future.Homecoming seriesThe Memory of EarthThe Call of EarthThe Ships of EarthEarthfallEarthborn
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 hundred 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 the 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 the Earth, the central intelligence that also can repair the Oversoul's damaged programming.
