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'''''Pathfinder''''' is a 2010 fantasy/sci-fi novel by [[Orson Scott Card]]. There are two parallel stories: The main plot concerns Rigg, a boy with the ability to see "paths" left behind by all living creatures when they move, and how he gets caught up in a political struggle for the fate of the known world. The second story deals with Ram, the pilot on a colony ship heading out from Earth to colonize a new world, equipped with an experimental [[Subspace or Hyperspace|hyperdrive,]] and his interactions with the ship's computers and the Expendables, a group of [[Artificial Human|androids]] that interface with the computers and serve as advisers.
Fairly early on Rigg learns that he's not the only one with unusual powers, and that there's a way to use his ability to not only see the course of people and other life from the past, but to interact with them and change the past as well. So of course many [[Time Travel Tropes]] get used, though the [[Word of God|author's note]] explains that he wanted to "embrace" paradox rather than avoiding it, so expect to see the [[Time Travel Tropes]] get played with.
Beware. This is an [[Orson Scott Card]] book, and so of course the plot gets very twisty. Even reading the trope example names could result in spoilage.
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* [[Achilles' Heel]] / [[Attack Its Weak Point]]: {{spoiler|The queen instructs the soldiers to wave iron bars around in order to thwart her daughter's magical invisibility ([[It Makes Sense in Context]]) and force her to materialize so they can kill her.}} So not cool!
* [[Affably Evil]]: {{spoiler|The queen, very much so.}} General Citizen has a bit of this vibe to him at first too.
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