Ruins, Orson Scott Card
Ruins, Orson Scott Card
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Ruins

Author: Orson Scott Card

Narrator: Orson Scott Card, Stefan Rudnicki, Kirby Heyborne, Emily Janice Card

Unabridged: 13 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 10/30/2012

Synopsis

Features a new exclusive introduction read by author Orson Scott Card.From the author of Ender’s Game, the major motion picture!A complex fate. A deadly path. Book two in the New York Times bestselling series Publishers Weekly calls “an epic in the best sense.”When Rigg and his friends crossed the Wall between the only world they knew and a world they could not imagine, he hoped he was leading them to safety. But the dangers in this new wallfold are more difficult to see. Rigg, Umbo, and Param know that they cannot trust the expendable, Vadesh—a machine shaped like a human, created to deceive—but they are no longer certain that they can even trust one another. But they will have little choice. Because although Rigg can decipher the paths of the past, he can’t yet see the horror that lies ahead: A destructive force with deadly intentions is hurtling toward Garden. If Rigg, Umbo, and Param can’t work together to alter the past, there will be no future.The adventure, suspense, and time travel continue in this second installment in the critically acclaimed New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestselling Pathfinder series.

About Orson Scott Card

Born in Richland, Washington, in 1951, Orson Scott Card grew up in California, Arizona, and Utah. He lived in Brazil for two years as an unpaid missionary for the Mormon Church and received degrees from Brigham Young University and the University of Utah. The author of numerous books in several genres, Card is best known for Ender’s Game and his online magazine, Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show (www.oscIGMS.com). He teaches writing and literature at Southern Virginia University and lives with his family in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Angie on November 19, 2012

Oof, this was a tough one. I actually forced myself to finish this after putting it down day after day. I remember really enjoy Pathfinder, but this one was a clunker. I think Orson Scott Card is a brilliant writer but sometimes brilliance does not translate well on the page. And sometimes writer's......more

Goodreads review by Ezra on January 13, 2013

I think that a lot of the criticism of this book is unfounded. First, it's Orson Scott Card, and for whatever reason his writing style just sucks me in regardless of content. Unless it's several books into the Alvin Maker series. As such I'm somewhat biased. However, this is one of Card's more compli......more

Goodreads review by Abby on May 13, 2015

Ruins confused me. At the end of Pathfinder, our gang of time-travelers had passed through the Wall, with all the possibilities of a new Wallfold ahead of them. The premise of an untrustworthy robot was a reasonably good one. Then the facemask thing happened, and I got confused. Now, I'm a reasonably......more

Goodreads review by Xabi1990 on August 21, 2018

Abandonado al 65%. Sin ningún tipo de ritmo, la novela se atasca y regodea en infinitos pensamientos de los protagonistas sobre las paradojas temporales, sobre sus relaciones con los otros miembros del grupo, sobre el “ me quiere o no me quiere” o sobre cualquier estupidez que se le pase por el tarro......more

Goodreads review by Leah on October 23, 2012

I started to read Ruins less than a day after I finished Pathfinder. Now, that’s 672 pages of time travel, followed by 544 more pages of time travel. These books are quite heavy, and require paying lots of attention. I didn’t quite pay enough attention. The time abilities are so complicated, and sinc......more

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