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Card never really explains the theoretical physics behind the "fold" that the ship makes in order to travel from one side of the galaxy to the other but there's a good chance he will in a sequel. Readers Also Browsed. While this book works on its own, it is obvious that this book has been written with the rest of the series in mind and I am really looking forwards to seeing the direction that Card chooses to take.

Even reading the trope example names could result in spoilage. References [ edit ]. Other people's memories change, but his doesn't. The reviews are necessarily limited to those that were available to us ahead of publication. Will from USA I really liked this book. Fast paced and thoroughly engrossing, the plus pages fly by, challenging readers to care about and grasp sophisticated, confusing, and captivating ideas.

Because of the change in focus the plot starts to stutter due to a lack of direction, however, it all comes together for an ending that somehow manages to be satisfying despite asking more questions than it answers. Affably Evil : The queen, very much so. Hatrack River Forum. More Recommendations More Books. In terms of the setting, there was more description about what the setting looked like compared to the characters physical description.

Eric from PCSS. Rigg, at first a fur trapper's apprentice who has been educated in nearly every skill by a mysterious figure claiming to be his father, prominently exhibits a seemingly magical ability to see "paths" hence the series' title , or the physical traces of living entities through time, to his benefit.

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The second story deals with Ram, the pilot on a colony ship heading out from Earth to colonize a new world, equipped with an experimental hyperdrive, and his interactions with the ship's computers and the Expendables, a group of androids that interface with the computers and serve as advisers. Comics Film. And when Rigg discovers that he has the power not only to see the past, but also to change it, his future suddenly becomes anything but certain.

Also it is extremely confusing and boring at some parts that make the pace of the book so slow.

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The third novel in the series, Xenocide , was published in , and the fourth and seemingly final volume, Children of the Mind , was published in August When combined with Umbo's power of speeding up one's brain, he realizes the paths he sees are actually the people of the past speedily walking by. Publication information is for the USA, and unless stated otherwise represents the first print edition.

She was only eleven-and-a-half inches tall, but she would change the world. The series is critically acclaimed for its fast-paced, yet detailed, action, and the complex international power games that characterize much of Orson Scott Card's latest works. Colony Drop : A manmade extinction event to wipe out incompatible native life so that Earth life could be seeded on Garden was planned as a part of the colonization process from the beginning.

While the constant explanation of plot devices can be belittling at times, especially for adult readers, it does make the more complex plot devices easier to understand without too much disruption to the flow of the story. Also, at the beginning of each chapter except the first is a short "header" telling a part of a side story.

Pathfinder by Orson Scott Card. They didn't tell the colonists, to sidestep moral objections. Eli from UK I absolutely loved this book.