With one character seeing all these pathways and another character able to move in time and the two of them getting together to jump to certain spots in time, the story takes a different shape, but not for the better. He is a sort of super-tracker but of what use is this gift? Card then introduces more characters, and these people have the gift of shifting in time.

Although it contains some very interesting sci-fi themes, it is essentially a fantasy novel, like its two sequels.Ĭard offers us the story of a young man named Rigg Sessamin, who grows up in the wilderness where he discovers that he has the gift of 'seeing' the pathways of other living creatures and where they have been.

The publisher, Simon Pulse, lists it as science fiction, but this is not the case. Pathfinder is part 1 of the trilogy and I found it to be the best part. I am posting my review of the entire trilogy here. He recently began a long-term position as a professor of writing and literature at Southern Virginia University.Ĭard currently lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with his wife, Kristine Allen Card, and their youngest child, Zina Margaret.įor further details, see the author's Wikipedia page.įor an ordered list of the author's works, see Wikipedia's List of works by Orson Scott Card. Besides his writing, he teaches occasional classes and workshops and directs plays. He served a mission for the LDS Church in Brazil in the early 1970s. Orson Scott Card is the author of the novels Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, and Speaker for the Dead, which are widely read by adults and younger readers, and are increasingly used in schools.īesides these and other science fiction novels, Card writes contemporary fantasy ( Magic Street, Enchantment, Lost Boys), biblical novels ( Stone Tables, Rachel and Leah), the American frontier fantasy series The Tales of Alvin Maker (beginning with Seventh Son), poetry ( An Open Book), and many plays and scripts.Ĭard was born in Washington and grew up in California, Arizona, and Utah.

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