Orson Scott Card Books

[Elanor]

And now I no longer go there, so I guess I've lost my chance to get his autograph. Oh, well.

I'm currently re-reading Shadow of the Hegemon, having recently re-read Ender's Game, its sequels, and Ender's Shadow. I've heard that OSC is planning/writing two more books in this series, one to tie up the loose ends with Peter and Petra on Earth, and one to continue after Children of the Mind, and have the characters on Lusitania confront the "descoladeros" or whatever-- the possibly sentient aliens that communicate (apparently) by biological signals and have interstellar capabilities. I most would like to see what happens to "old" Valentine after her exposure as Demosthenes.

I've also recently read Pastwatch: the Redemption of Christopher Colombus. In this book, far in the future, humanity has decimated the planet and is dying out from food shortage; it will take millions of years to replenish the resources, and by then humanity (or at least civilization) will be gone. So they develop the technology to send something, or someone, into the past, and decide the pivotal point in history is when Colombus "discovers" America. I found this fascinating, and if anyone else has read it, do you think we would be justified in changing the course of history to preserve humanity as a whole?