Children of the Earth

by Catherine Wells

Earth has kept its rebirth a secret for some time, but when colonists throughout the stars begin to long for contact with the mother world, violence and greed could once again threaten the planet. Original.

Genres: Science Fiction, Fantasy

406 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published August 23, 1992

Reviews

[Lee Pfahler · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very good second book in this series in which one of the main characters has jumped ahead in time a couple hundred years and starts to live with his future people who know the stories about him but do they believe he is who he says he is? While his people in the past mourn his loss and try to carry on without him hoping he will return some day. But there is much more going on beyond Earth that neither the ones in the past or future know about.

[Bailey Olfert · Rating 2 out of 5]

I kept plowing through this story, to learn how the three threads (on two worlds and in two timelines) would come together or resolve, but that did not happen, so in the end I was disappointed. The stranded community's coming to terms with becoming primitive after living with technology was interesting. The struggle of some of the characters to hear Mother Earth or to understand their purpose was poignant. The story was also unexpectedly humorous.

[Julie Bihn · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the middle book of a trilogy (and I hadn't read the first book) so it took a while to get into this one...way more characters and a grander scope than I'm used to. Yet it was enjoyable...interesting storylines and one of the major arcs is basically a recasting of a Biblical scenario. Interesting!