The Worthing chronicle
Orson Scott Card (Author), Don Maitz (Illustrator)
Jason Worthing was a telepath, and the best of the ark captains sent to seed humankind anew on a hundred new worlds. He established his colonists and his descendants and when he was sure that they would survive, he sealed himself in a chamber to be awakened when his world had built a new civilization. He slept 15,000 years and awoke to a future he had never dreamed of
Print Book, English, ©1983
Ace Books, New York, ©1983