The Memory of Earth
- 320
- Pages
- about 6 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“The Memory of Earth” opens Orson Scott Card’s “Homecoming Saga” with a thoughtful premise: a far-future world watched over by a guardian machine. The novel loosely recasts the earlier half of the Book of Mormon’s first book, and its story stays close to one family. The religious allegory is plain to see, and some readers are taken with a social order in which women hold spiritual authority.
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About the book
The Memory of Earth (1992) is a science fiction novel by American writer Orson Scott Card. It is the first book of the Homecoming Saga, a loose fictionalization of the first half of the first book in the Book of Mormon.
Reading order · Homecoming Saga
Full order & progress →- The Memory of EarthThis book
7.57.5 / 10 - The Call of Earth
7.57.5 / 10 - The Ships of Earth
7.57.5 / 10 - Earthfall
7.57.5 / 10 - Earthborn
7.57.5 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.2 across 97 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 40% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 7.5 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.5 | 11 | 11% |
| Hardcover | 7.1 | 86 | 89% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Memory of Earth?
It has 320 pages — shorter than 76% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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