Pathfinder

Zusatztext "Card entwines two stories in this fascinatingly complex series opener....The result is an amalgamation of adventure! politics! and time travel that invokes issues of class and the right to control one's own life. Yet despite its complexity! the book is never less than page-turning. While Card delves deeply into his story's knotted twists and turns! readers should have no trouble following the philosophical and scientific mysteries! which the characters are parsing right along with them. An epic in the best sense." -- PW ! starred review Informationen zum Autor Orson Scott Card is the author of numerous bestselling novels and the first writer to receive both the Hugo and Nebula awards two years in a row; first for Ender’s Game and then for the sequel, Speaker for the Dead . He lives with his wife in North Carolina. Klappentext From the internationally bestselling author of "Ender's Game" comes a brand-new series that draws readers into the world of Rigg! a teenager who possesses a secret talent that allows him to see the paths of people's pasts. CHAPTER 1 If a Tree Falls Saving the human race is a frantic business. Or a tedious one. It all depends on what stage of the process you’re taking part in. • • • Rigg and Father usually set the traps together, because it was Rigg who had the knack of seeing the paths that the animals they wanted were still using. Father was blind to it—he could never see the thin shimmering trails in the air that marked the passage of living creatures through the world. But to Rigg it was, and always had been, part of what his eyes could see, without any effort at all. The newer the path, the bluer the shimmer; older ones were green, yellow; the truly ancient ones tended toward red. As a toddler, Rigg had quickly learned what the shimmering meant, because he could see everyone leaving trails behind them as they went. Besides the color, there was a sort of signature to each one, and over the years Rigg became adept at recognizing them. He could tell at a glance the difference between a human and an animal, or between the different species, and if he looked closely, he could sort out the tracks so clearly that he could follow the path of a single person or an individual beast. Once, when Father first started taking him out trapping, Rigg had made the mistake of following a greenish trail. When they reached the end of it, there were only a few old bones scattered where animals had torn the carcass many months ago. Father had not been angry. In fact, he seemed amused. “We need to find animals with their skins still fresh,” said Father. “And a little meat on them for us to eat. But if I had a bone collection, these would do nicely. Don’t worry, Rigg.” Father never criticized Rigg when it came to his knack for pathfinding. He simply accepted what Rigg could do, and encouraged him to hone his skill. But whenever Rigg started to tell someone about what he could do, or even speak carelessly, so they might be able to figure out that he had some unusual ability, Father was merciless, silencing him at once. “It’s your life,” said Father. “There are those who would kill you for this. And others who would take you away from me and make you live in a terrible place and make you follow paths for them, and it would lead to them killing the ones you found.” And, to make sure Rigg understood how serious this was, he added, “And they would not be beasts, Rigg. You would be helping them murder people.” Maybe Father shouldn’t have told him that, because it haunted Rigg’s thoughts for months afterward—and not just by giving him nightmares. It made Rigg feel very powerful, to think that his ability might help men find criminals and outlaws. But all that was when Rigg was still little—seven or eight years old. Now he was thirteen and his voice was...

Product details

• Authors: Orson Scott Card
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster USA
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 12 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.12.2010
• EAN: 9781416991762
• ISBN: 978-1-4169-9176-2
• Dimensions: 147 mm x 217 mm x 45 mm
• Series: Pathfinder Trilogy
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books; Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy