![]() ![]() ![]() Card, as well as the best of any contemporary writer, allows us to struggle with his characters through the difficult issues and relationships. Through it all, on a much grander scale, we see our struggles. ![]() Yet through it all, the universal desire for friendship, purpose and hope come through. The nuance of attempts to manage the Expendables (highly capable androids with a warped sense of Asmovian laws of robotics) is dizzying. The scale of issues presented to our band of travelers, Rigg, Umbo, Loaf, Param and Olivenko is breathtakingly daunting. ![]() It deals with all of the baggage of society, including the strata to which we believe we belong. Card thoroughly wrestles with moving in time and discerning truth within relationships placed under the strain of ever changing abilities against a back drop of every changing knowledge of the world seen through the eyes of rapid biological enhancements. Of course, this is all of our stories – we have this gift of life, with various talents and resources -used to what end? In the first two books of the Pathfinder series, the third book’s schedule isn’t published yet, Mr. Orson Scott Card once again presents us with teens of extradinary giftedness who must determine how they are to deal with a world that is different than the one in which they thought they lived. ![]()
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