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Title: Gave up on it after 200 pages.
Review: This is my first (and probably only) Orson Scott Card novel, but I think he's bit off more than he can chew. To write about people who lived 500 years ago would take a lot of skill and knowledge--I was never convinced I was reading about Christopher Colombus (I think calling him "Colon" in the novel was Card's token effort for historical veracity) or Queen Isabella. But all of the characters, including the future scientists, are too transparently unidimensional, cardboard constructs who can be described in a sentence. This was simply too agonizing for me to get through.
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