Earthborn

Earthborn

Orson Scott Card

First published 1995Original language EN

7.57.5 / 10
Score out of 1062 ratingsConfidence 30%: this much of the score is the readers’ own
430
Pages
about 8 h
Reading time

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About the book

Earthborn (1995) is a science fiction book by American writer Orson Scott Card, the concluding fifth book of the Homecoming Saga. The series is a fictionalization of the first few hundred years recorded in the Book of Mormon.

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Reading order · Homecoming Saga

Full order & progress →
Score per volume5 volumes on a timeline, 1992 to 1995 · Best-rated volume: The Memory of Earth
  1. The Memory of Earth
    The Memory of Earth1992 · 97 ratingsStart here
    7.57.5 / 10
  2. The Call of Earth
    The Call of Earth1993 · 73 ratings
    7.57.5 / 10
  3. The Ships of Earth
    The Ships of Earth1994 · 67 ratings
    7.57.5 / 10
  4. Earthfall
    Earthfall1995 · 58 ratings
    7.57.5 / 10
  5. Earthborn
    Earthborn1995 · 62 ratingsThis book
    7.57.5 / 10

Where the score comes from

The sources average 6.7 across 62 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 30% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 7.5 comes out.

SourceAverageRatingsWeight
Open Library7.19 14%
Hardcover6.753 86%

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It has 430 pages — shorter than 54% of the ranked books in Science fiction.

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