Ruins

By CARD, Orson Scott

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ISBN
978-1-4169-9177-9 978-1-4424-1428-0
Publisher
S & S Simon Pulse


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School Library Journal

Reviewed on November 1, 2012  |  Grades 5-up

Gr 10 Up—"Conservation of causality," evolutionary divergence, preemptive self-defense, and what makes a being "human" are all topics explored in this sophisticated novel. Readers unfamiliar with Pathfinder (S & S, 2010) shouldn't begin with this one: the characters, their relationships, and the progress of the plot are too complicated to be understood by those who don't know the world of Garden. Rigg and his companions have entered Vadeshfold. Now that he has fulfilled his father's instruction to find his sister, Param, he is respons...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Horn Book Magazine

Reviewed on October 1, 2012

In this sequel to Pathfinder (rev. 1/11), Rigg and his companions have successfully used their time travel abilities to escape from their home wallfold into a neighboring one. There are nineteen such wallfolds on the planet Garden, each one colonized by a replication of the original starship during its voyage from Earth. Rigg and company will visit three wallfolds over the course of the novel, learning that humans have evolved differently in each ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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