- Science fiction, Space colonies, Time travel, Fiction
To prevent the destruction of his planet, teenaged Rigg Sessamekesh, who can manipulate time, must assume more responsibility when he and others travel back 11,000 years to the arrival of human starships.
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- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Orson Scott Card
- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 544
- Publisher
- Brilliance Audio, Simon & Schuster, Limited, Brand: Brilliance Audio
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781416991809
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Orson Scott Card is an American novelist, critic, public speaker, essayist and columnist. He writes in several genres but is known best for science fiction. His novel Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel Speaker for the Dead (1986) both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the only author to win both science fiction's top U.S. prizes in consecutive years.
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