It would also require breaking all our peace treaties with the other families and reopening a war. "At the same time, the only hope of restoring the ancient powers is to reopen the gates, and that would require a gatemage. They are also torn: The person who deprived them was a gatemage, and therefore gatemages can't be trusted and must be killed. "So they have a sense of entitlement and deprivation: They should be powerful, and yet they are not, and thus they are aggrieved. But since then, they have been cut off from the source of their power on another world, and their power has diminished accordingly," he said. "In the case of 'The Lost Gate,' we have a family whose ancestors had godlike powers and were, in fact, regarded as gods by ordinary mortals on Earth. How would it affect daily life, social behavior, social hierarchies, laws and customs? He asks himself what would change in the way people live and relate to one another if society ever had a particular power or machine or knowledge. He creates the environments using extrapolation, the stock in the trade of science fiction writing. Some critics have thought that I spent too much time on it, but I was true to my characters - and I bet very few teenager boys think I spent too much time on it." Their minds are boggled, and so I showed that consternation and fascination to the reader. "I realized that my characters, young teenage boys, would absolutely insist on trying to make sense of what their time travel abilities say about how the universe works. "The real problem is recognizing when an idea is cool enough to be worth spending time on."Īnd how does he keep the complexities - such as time travel, space folds and eternal pathmaking - from overwhelming the story, the author and the reader?
"Ideas are cheap, and they come constantly," Card said. "The Lost Gate" explores what a world would be like with something like wormholes popping up at someone's whim.īoth are vintage Card, with characters and worlds created out of an original mind. "Pathfinder" follows the story of Rigg Sessamekesh, a lad who can see where people have gone before. Two, count 'em, two new Card books hit the shelves: "Pathfinder" and "The Lost Gate." GREENSBORO, North Carolina - 'Twas a Merry Christmas for Orson Scott Card fans.
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