Visitors

Visitors is a science fiction novel by American author Orson Scott Card, who is best known for his novels, Ender's Game (1985) and Speaker for the Dead (1986). This novel continues the story of Rigg and his evolving ability to see and travel to the past, in an attempt to save the future. It is the third and final book of the Pathfinder series, preceded by Ruins and Pathfinder. Visitors was published on November 4, 2014. Summary In Visitors, Rigg, Umbo, and Param have determined that humans are the destroyers that bring about the end of their world. As they struggle to determine how to prevent the planet's impending doom, they are forced into an impossible moral dilemma: whether it is justified to sacrifice one world for another, especially when one of those worlds is Earth, the Cradle of Humanity. They travel through the history of Garden and each Wallfold, hoping to uncover the reason that the visitors from Earth will send the destroyers and attempting to prevent this outcome without having to destroy Earth preemptively. Their skills and abilities are put to the ultimate test as they try to end the war between worlds before it can begin in this epic and explosive conclusion. Plot Overview The novel picks up where the events of Ruins left off: Ram, Rigg, Noxon (Rigg's duplicate from the future who has come back to prevent him from killing Ram Odin), and Vadeshex are in the control room discussing what to do about the seemingly inevitable arrival of the visitors from Earth, followed by the destroyers. They decide to send Noxon to Earth to attempt to prevent the destroyers from coming to Garden, while Rigg will stay on Garden to assess the wallfolds and help with the war in Ramfold.