
Pastwatch
The Redemption of Christopher Columbus
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Orson Scott Card
In one of the most powerful and thought-provoking novels of his remarkable career, Orson Scott Card 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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every bit as good as I remember
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Columbus
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Got though it with enthusiasm
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Wonderful alternate history
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This was written in 1996 and apparently supposed to be the first of a series of Pastwatch books but no others were written.
This novel is a mix of historical fiction centered around Columbus' life in the fifteen century with some near future time travel science fiction. Card takes us from Columbus' childhood until his famous 1492 voyage west and that's where the time travel kicks in. In the not too distant future humans have invented a method to view past events for historical research purposes until the technology is eventually advanced to the point where people can actually travel in time. The time travel group on earth discovers that alternate timelines can and have been created so a group of three time travelers are sent back to the Caribbean area in the Americas where Columbus is due to land in hopes of changing history - as in their (and our) time line humanity is facing natural disasters, and we all know how the history of the Americas was changed after 1492. The goal of the future time travelers was to create a time line which featured a stable civilization in the Americas driven by the native population rather than Europeans.
Card really develops his main characters well and gives us an interesting glimpse in to what Columbus' life was like. The chapters were long (at least in the audiobook) but jumped around from narrator to narrator often which kept the listening experience fresh. I'm not a huge fan of historical fiction but found these parts to be interesting due to the subject matter, and felt the novel really took off once Columbus reached the Caribbean and the time travelers started going to work. The novel focuses on its characters rather than the mechanics and technology of the time travel bits, as the science is left in the background and not explained very well. The story telling is what makes this novel great - it is really deep, there is much more to this than what appears on the surface, and Card really sweeps you away with his what-might-have-been scenario
Interesting Alternative History Time Travel Romp
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