Wyrms

This article is about the novel. For the legendary creature, see Wyrm.

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Wyrms published in 1987 by TOR books is a novel by Orson Scott Card. The story examines desire, wisdom, and human will.

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The setting for the story is a planet where ore for producing hard metal is rare, most of the ore having been destroyed by the madness of the starship captain ages ago while his ship was in orbit. The world is inhabited by humans as well as geblings, dwelfs and gaunts. Geblings are an intelligent apelike species, who have the ability to communicate with each other telepathically. Dwelfs haven't the capacity to remember anything, and gaunts haven't any free will of their own. They can however (through unknown means) read the will or desires of those around them and always act on the impulses they read. There is one other life form that preceded all the others on the planet. They are called Wyrms. They disappeared from the planet shortly after the humans landed. Nobody on the planet is certain where the other species originated from.

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