The Worthing Saga by Orson Scott Card (2005, Unabridged, Compact Disc)

Orson Scott Card’s ambitious saga works on so many levels it will take your breath away. Jason Worthing, former star pilot, awakens after 15,000 years to discover a world populated with his own descendants to whom the name Worthing is synonomous with God. With his arrival comes The Night of Pain when the world experiences loss, fear, death and anguish for the first time. As Worthing tells his story through dreams fed telepathically to a boy he’s chosen as his scribe, the novel folds in and out of itself, ultimately producing what sophisticated readers will recognize as a bible. For those who don’t want to wrestle with the cosmological and theological questions of who put us here and why, there’s plenty of action and distraction. Narrator Scott Brick maintains his interest and enthusiasm throughout.