...is "Pastwatch"
Book recommendation: "Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus," by Orson Scott Card. Sci-fi and historical fiction. This is my favorite book. Period. Oh man, where do I even begin. For starters, I think about this book all the time. I read it the first time about a year ago and it pops in to my head more than a lot of other things. The book is so richly thought-provoking because it me made me ask loads of questions about myself and about the human race. What makes a person truly unique? How much of my character that I think is truly mine is actually just a product of my culture and neighborhood? Why did most of history have to be so terrible? What would the end of the earth really look like? What do I do that really matters, and what do I do that is just filler, or fluff? What's cool about the book is that it doesn't ask you these questions at all; they just slowly mull over in your mind when you wade through the book's subject matter. Which is ...