Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus

Orson Scott Card

Nov 2009 · Sold by Tor Books

About this ebook

In one of the most powerful and thought-provoking novels of his remarkable career, Orson Scott Card's Pastwatch interweaves a compelling portrait of Christopher Columbus with the story of a future scientist who believes she can alter human history from a tragedy of bloodshed and brutality to a world filled with hope and healing.

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Ratings and reviews

Read it many times. It remains my favorite book, despite reading hundreds. Imagine the world reversed. The Americas conquering the Eastern world. The ultimate what-if Europeans hadn't found the "New World" combined with time travel, history, excellent character development, deep and meaningful thought provoking plot...It's just too awesome to do it justice.

Another of my favorites. This book just goes to show how even the small things can change a future, for good or for bad, and that history is where we should all look to protect the future. Great read!

A great idea with a good choice of story line. I normally find time travel stories to be to predictable and improbable. The idea of what a civilization would do with the ability to travel back in time was fascinating and the problem solving unique. Great read and my second favorite Orson Scott Card book.

About the author

Orson Scott Card is the author of the novels Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, and Speaker for the Dead. Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the only author to win these two top prizes in consecutive years. There are seven other novels to date in The Ender Universe series. Card has also written fantasy: The Tales of Alvin Maker is a series of fantasy novels set in frontier America; The Lost Gate, is a contemporary magical fantasy. Card has written many other stand-alone sf and fantasy novels, as well as movie tie-ins and games, and publishes an internet-based science fiction and fantasy magazine, Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show. Card was born in Washington and grew up in California, Arizona, and Utah. He served a mission for the LDS Church in Brazil in the early 1970s. Besides his writing, Card directs plays and teaches writing and literature at Southern Virginia University. He lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with his wife, Kristine Allen Card, and youngest daughter, Zina Margaret.