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Orson Scott Card

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Closing the Timelid

by Orson Scott Card
Centuries in the future, Orion throws an illicit party in which the partygoers get to experience complete death in the past.
— Michael Main
Ah, agony in a tearing that made him feel, for the first time, every particle of his body as it screamed in pain.
“Closing the Timelid” by Orson Scott Card, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 1979.

Clap Hands and Sing

by Orson Scott Card
Ancient Charlie sees a momentary vision of young Rachel, barely into her teens, and a moment with her that was never to be.

I’ve read other Card stories where he portrays the dark side of a character in realistic and frightening form that I could deal with, but for me, the seeming comfort that the character gets at the end is more disturbing than anything else Card has written.

He almost stops himself. Few things are left in his private catalog of sin, but surely this is one. He looks into himself and tries to find the will to resist his own desire solely because its fulfillment will hurt another person. He is out of practice—so far out of practice that he keeps losing track of the reason for resisting.
“Clap Hands and Sing” by Orson Scott Card, in The Best of Omni Science Fiction No. 3, edited by Ben Bova and Don Myrus (Omni Publications International Ltd., February 1982).

Atlantis

by Orson Scott Card
“Atlantis” by Orson Scott Card, in Grails: Quests, Visitations and Other Occurrences, edited by Richard Gilliam et al. (Unnameable Press, October 1992).

Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus

by Orson Scott Card
Diko, a second-generation researcher in a project that observes the past, discovers that it’s actually possible to send objects to the past and that a previous timeline did just this to alter Christopher Columbus’s fate; now, Diko and two others propose a further alteration that involves three travelers going to the 15th century.
All of history was available, it seemed, and yet Pastwatch had barely scratched the surface of the past, and most watchers looked forward to a limitless future of rummaging through time.
Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus by Orson Scott Card (Tor Books, February 1996).
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