![]() Yet despite its complexity, the book is never less than page-turning. 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. Interwoven is the story of starship captain Ram Odin, whose interspatial jump toward a new colony world results in a bizarre paradox with far-reaching consequences. Then his father dies suddenly, and Rigg becomes an outcast with his friend Umbo, after Rigg is wrongly blamed for Umbo's brother's death. In one, 13-year-old Rigg is living a contented life with his acerbic and intellectually challenging father as a backcountry trapper, using his magical ability to perceive paths that show the past movements of people and animals-anywhere from minutes to thousands of years earlier. ![]() Card entwines two stories in this fascinatingly complex series opener. ![]()
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