It was a miracle of science that permitted human beings to live if notforever then for a long long time. Some people anyway. The rich thepowerfulthey lived thei... » 

It was a miracle of science that permitted human beings to live if notforever then for a long long time. Some people anyway. The rich thepowerfulthey lived their lives at the rate of one year every ten. Someccreated two societies that of people who lived out their normal span and diedand those who slept away the decades skipping over the intervening years andevents. It allowed great plans to be put in motion. It allowed interstellarEmpires to be built.It came near to destroying humanity.After a long long time of decadence and stagnation a few seed ships were sentout to save our species. They carried human embryos and supplies and teachingrobots and one man. The Worthing Saga is the story of one of these menJason WOrthing and the world he found for the seed he carried.Orson Scott Card is a master of the art of storytelling Booklist andThe Worthing Saga is a story that only he could have written. «