NMLP P-023343 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-04

The Worthing Chronicle

Orson Scott Card · Ace (New York) · 1983

This is Card's substantial rewrite of his 1979 first novel 'Hot Sleep': the major events are retained but the story is retold from the vantage of a character who meets the protagonist much later in life, so the text here is a distinct revised work rather than a reprint of 'Hot Sleep'

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-023343 for "The Worthing Chronicle" by Orson Scott Card (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-023343, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).