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When the alien Visitors threaten to destroy Garden, the colony’s young time‑shapers—Rigg, Umbo, and Param—must interrupt their plan. Rigg travels across Garden’s archipelagos, Noxon retraces time to Earth, and the trio faces allies yet again untrustworthy. With history at stake, they wrestle with the ultimate dilemma: protecting the colony or saving humanity worldwide.
First publish date: 2014
Genre: Science Fiction/Space Opera
Authors: Orson Scott Card
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