Book description
After a scientific innovation allows researchers to open a window on the past, a young woman sends an individual onto a slightly different path in life, interference that has unexpected repercussions for the present and future.
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1 author picked Pastwatch as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This is one of the least-known books by science fiction writer Orson Scott Card, but it’s my favorite. In a dying future, scientists are sent back to the past to initially transcribe history and later to change it when they discover that possibility.
Time travel books can either be an interesting intellectual exercise or a jumble of logical impossibilities. This is the former, but it is also a great historical description of the discovery of the New World, including all of the wonders and atrocities.
It confronts the disturbing roots of European and American slavery as well as the barbarism…
From Bob's list on The best dystopian books that are great lessons for today.
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