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Title	:	Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (Pastwatch #1)
Author	:	Orson Scott Card
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 402 pages
Published	:	March 1st 2016 by Tor Books (first published February 1996)
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Fiction. Time Travel. Historical. Historical Fiction. Fantasy. Alternate History. Science Fiction Fantasy

Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (Pastwatch #1) Paperback | Pages: 402 pages

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Orson Scott Card’s very entertaining 1996 novel Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus is a time travel book and so much more. Many great science fiction / fantasy writers have had fun and great success with time travel as an extension of their speculative vision. Heinlein, Poul Anderson, Bradbury, de Camp, H.G. Wells, Vonnegut, Twain, and Piers Anthony to name just a few. There seems to be as many approaches to the time travel conundrum as there are writers, but generally falling into one of two camps. There is the classic paradox scenario where a time traveller actually goes back in time and is a part of the action and so perhaps changes his own destiny. There is also the time traveller as voyeur, where the agent can only view and report. This is a little of both. Setting up a time travel process whereby scientists can “see” into the past, the sightseers make an astonishing discovery that perhaps they can be seen and influence those in the past. From here comes the next step of travel, and so Card is off. The subject is good ole Christopher Columbus and his world-changing voyage. Should he have gone east instead of west to influence the Crusades? What would that be like? Could travellers making influential changes create a worse result? Card asks and answers many of these questions and creates a fecundity of time travel paradoxical theorizing. Columbus is more than just a time traveller’s target, Card spends plenty of time getting to know the Genoese and this history seems well researched and deftly produced. The reader is thus entranced and entertained, spell bound by Card’s exceptional storytelling and invited to consider a myriad of time travel what ifs.

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Original Title:	Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus
ISBN:	0812508645 (ISBN13: 9780812508642)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Pastwatch #1
Literary Awards:	Sidewise Award Nominee for Best Long Form (1996)

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The next stop in my time travel marathon was Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus, the 1996 novel by Orson Scott Card. This was my introduction to Card, one of the more prolific science fiction authors working; his Ender saga alone equals the flex of most writers out there. Pastwatch was rumored to be the beginning of a series, and with the attention to both character and history, as well as dedication to a rousing good tale, I couldn't be more excited to visit this world again.

This was a very interesting read- not your typical time-travel sci-fi book. It had a really cool view of history and the book really makes you think. Welker-sensei, I think you'd probably enjoy this one!

"I LOVE the art of storytelling with an immense passion and I suffer from legitimate anxiety that I will not read all the books I hope to read before I die. And they just keep writing new ones!" ~ Deborah Marani (reader)I've said this before. It's my personal quote :)I tried. And tried. I got almost halfway through. Parts of the book were engaging. I began to really care about a few of the characters but the book just seemed to keep getting in it's own way. You know? The long tedious parts

Pastwatch is a really interesting alternate history by Orson Scott Card.It is really hard to give a summary of this book without giving away any spoilers. Normally I'd give a short summary and then go into my opinions, but I don't feel comfortable giving a summary here because one of the most important plot points isn't something you discover until half way through the book, and I'm not going to ruin that for you guys.One of the most interesting parts of this book is that it takes place during

Recommended by Jocelyn and Joje. It's a science-fiction, utopian novel as well as a thoughtful and well-researched reflection on History and its twists, a moral tale filled with lovely, compassionate and clever characters. At some point in my reading, I thought that the story was lacking a major villain (there is a minor one) to make the plot even more exciting and a little less heavy on the politically correct, but this may have been my wicked mind speaking. In the end, I came to realize that a

This book is 280 pages of people talking about doing things and only 60 pages of people actually doing those things that they already spent 280 pages talking about doing. Characters are introduced and then never really utilized. Characters that are utilized frequently defer to and reference characters that barely made an impression at the beginning of the book. In general, it's just not a well written story.As far as the philosophy behind it, it's a pedantic story with the ending message,

A lot of my thoughts on this are spoilery, but heres the tl;dr version: I loved this book. Its driving force is ideas, which is right up my alley. It was the perfect blend of being grounded in historical detail but full of idealism and hypotheticals (what science fiction is for). It had a fascinating world-building (both historical and in the far future), characters I cared about, and ethical dilemmas. Now for more in-depth thoughts and critiques of other peoples critiques Another reviewer said