Capitol

Orson Scott Card

Book 1 of Worthing

Language: Unknown

Publisher: ACE SCIENCE FICTION

Published: Jan 2, 1979

Description:

Capitol is a world whose only hope is sleep, whose only sleep is death, and whose dreams are fulfilled dangerously often. From the invention of the immortality drug somec, witch only available to the privileged few, to a farflung empire on the edge of the galaxy, CAPITOL traces the fulfillment of mankind's loftiest dreams-and most dismal nightmares. It is not a utopia; but some people manage to find a kind of happiness, a kind of peace, and even, sometimes, a kind of nobility. You will meet... THE TELEPATIC SHIP CAPATIN who inadvertently destroys three planets. THE DYING PROPHET who keeps his god alive in the heart of a young boy. THE WARMING GENIOUS whose greatest creation is undone by the only man who can ever match him. THE WOMAN WHO SLOWLY KILLS her son-until he murders her. But she comes to visit him in the hospital anyway. THEIS ENEMIES ARE POWERFUL. THEIR LIVES ARE CRUEL. BUT YOU WON'T FORGET THE PEOPLE OF CAPITOL