Unfortunate circumstances lead to his setting off at a young age, accompanied by Umbo, a friend from home who's in a similar predicament) to find his sister in a far away town.but things are complicated by political intrigue, betrayal, and most of all by the strange gifts that Rigg and Umbo possess.Īnd it is these gifts that introduce timeslippiness into the story (I'm not saying anything else). A boy, Rigg, grows up alone with his father, who educates him with a passionate intensity in all imaginable disciplines. Usually I sum up the plot of the books I review, but to do so in this case is tricky to do without spoilers, so I'll keep it very minimal. And although it's no Ender's Game, it is a very good read. It's a story that combines "magic" with science fiction, and introduces a new Really Smart Boy character placed in an untenable situation. In Pathfinder (2010), Card brings his considerable intelligence to bear on a new world (a colony planet of earth). In Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card placed an incredibly intelligent boy in an almost unbearable science-fiction scenario the brilliantly character-driven action and the meticulously crafted tension of the world-building made this a book to remember.
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