The Memory of Earth

I know, I know. I said I wasn’t into fiction any more, but sometimes you just get a craving. The Memory of Earth by Orson Scott Card (author of Ender’s Game, another highly recommended novel) is about the future of humanity. In Card’s vision of the future, 20 million years from now, humanity had almost destroyed itself, but some long-sighted survivalists sent some people off to a new planet they called Harmony. If you don’t like spoilers, don’t read the back cover of the book, or the teaser inside the book on the first page. I probably would have enjoyed the book more had I not been able to predict what MUST happen based on those. It’s a so-so novel, but not a dud. Enjoyable reading for a weekend beach trip. 5 random check marks out of 8.