Hot Sleep: The Worthing Chronicle [Paperback]

Orson Scott Card (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 309 pages
• Publisher: Baronet; 1st Baronet ed edition (October 18, 1979)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0894370545
• ISBN-13: 978-0894370540
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,757,925 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Orson Scott Card is the bestselling author best known for the classic Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow and other novels in the Ender universe. Most recently, he was awarded the 2008 Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in Young Adult literature, from the American Library Association. Card has written sixty-one books, assorted plays, comics, and essays and newspaper columns. His work has won multiple awards, including back-to-back wins of the Hugo and the Nebula Awards-the only author to have done so in consecutive years. His titles have also landed on 'best of' lists and been adopted by cities, universities and libraries for reading programs. The Ender novels have inspired a Marvel Comics series, a forthcoming video game from Chair Entertainment, and pre-production on a film version. A highly anticipated The Authorized Ender Companion, written by Jake Black, is also forthcoming.Card offers writing workshops from time to time and occasionally teaches writing and literature at universities.Orson Scott Card currently lives with his family in Greensboro, NC.

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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars If you ever find it, get it, April 21, 2001

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This review is from: Hot Sleep (Mass Market Paperback)

This is an excellent book. The book based on it, The Worthing Saga, doesn't even compare. This book is extremely hard to come across, so if you ever DO find it, my suggestion is to grab it quickly before anyone else does.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Awkward but very rewarding, October 28, 2006

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Stephen Hitchings (Sydney, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hot Sleep (Mass Market Paperback)

The author seems to have had a lot of trouble deciding what type of book he wanted to write. Hot Sleep begins as a fairly typical future-urban coming-of-age tale of a telepath. It soon degenerates into a B-grade thriller, then jets off into space and ultimately becomes a future history. Despite this, it ultimately comes together to form a very impressive first novel, with the truly epic scope that only science fiction has ever been able to do well, and a beautifully haunting ending. While it's a pity about some of the early parts, the book has a wonderful unity of vision, and it reminded me, as so few books I have read recently, why I love reading sf.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars LOVE THIS ONE - HAUNTING, August 1, 2004

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D. Blankenship (The Ozarks) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hot Sleep (Mass Market Paperback)

As pointed out by another reviewer, this is a difficult book to find. I have had a copy for several years now and have reread it several times. I promise you, if you can find a copy, and you read it, you will not be sorry. Wonderful story line which is absolutely haunting. This is one of those books that will stick with you for a long, long time.