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	Pastwatch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pastwatch: the Redemption of Christopher Columbus is a science-fiction novel by Orson Scott Card, dealing both with time travel and alternate history.
		The book's focus is the life and activities of explorer, Christopher Columbus and much of the action deals with a group of scientists from the future who travel back to the 15th Century in order to change the pattern of European contact with the American continents.
		Their efforts are focused on Cristoforo Colombo, a pivotal figure whose religious zealotry and irrational fixation on the New World led to centuries of mass genocide and ecological devastation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pastwatch:_The_Redemption_of_Christopher_Columbus (733 words)

	AML-List Review: Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus
		Pastwatch, The Redemption of Christopher Columbus comes four years later than planned; originally, Card's Columbus novel was to have appeared in 1992 to commemorate the 500th anniversary or Columbus' voyage of discovery.
		To further complicate the novel, mid-way through the Pastwatch characters discover that the ostensibly utopian society in which they live one that is restoring the ravaged earth while allowing individuals full freedom to develop as they wish is in reality the final short burgeoning of a doomed planet.
		Pastwatch is a fine novel, nevertheless, powerful in its storytelling and compelling in its characters.
	www.aml-online.org /reviews/b/B199624.html (1089 words)

	Pastwatch & Aqua: Distributed Version Control
		Pastwatch projects store a copy of their repository on Aqua, and Aqua makes sure that the repository is highly available.
		Pastwatch users have full access to the source repository while travelling and during network failures.
		Pastwatch makes sure that for each commit, either all or none of the changes will be visible to users.
	pdos.csail.mit.edu /pastwatch (503 words)

	Shopping Solutions Message Detail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Tagiri and Hassan are members of Pastwatch, an academic organization that uses machines to see into the past and record it.
		Columbus, with whom readers become acquainted through both images in the Pastwatch machines and personal narrative, is portrayed as a religious man with both strengths and weaknesses, a charismatic leader who sometimes rose above but often fell beneath the mores of his times.
		Sponsored by the organization Pastwatch, which uses a machine called TruSite II to view the past in remarkable detail, the "Columbus Project" is headed by Tagiri, whose TruSite viewing of the horrors of slavery has prompted her to revise the famed explorer's agenda.
	www.shoppingsolutions.com /205/guestdetail.asp?msgid=2169 (433 words)

	AML-List Review: Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus
		It is, instead, a holograph created by some other Pastwatchers, who like themselves had found the crucial cause of their wounded civilization in Columbus, who in a different time stream had carried out his obsession to lead a crusade to Jerusalem.
		One example is the scene where, before they leave, the three Interveners have had the plates placed in their skulls that contain an account of their mission and directions to the libraries they will deposit.
		The third intervener is Hanahpu, a descendant of the Mayans, who has used Pastwatch to study his ancestors and neighboring civilizations and developed a remarkable theory about how they were weakened by human sacrifice and lack of metallurgy -- and with very little change might have been more than a match for the Europeans.
	www.aml-online.org /reviews/b/B199764.html (5191 words)

	NSDI '06 Abstract
		Pastwatch is a version control system that acts like a traditional client-server system when users are connected to the network; users can see each other's changes immediately after the changes are committed.
		When a user is not connected, Pastwatch also allows users to read revisions from the repository, commit new revisions and share modifications directly between users, all without access to the central repository.
		Pastwatch represents its repository as a "revtree" data structure which tracks the relationships among these conflicting changes, including any reconciliation.
	www.usenix.org /events/nsdi06/tech/yip.html (350 words)

	Amazon.de: Pastwatch: English Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Sponsored by the organization Pastwatch, which uses a machine called TruSite II to view the past in remarkable detail, the "Columbus Project" is headed by Tagiri, whose TruSite...
		Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus is as good a piece of psycho-history as has been written.
		Pastwatch is not particularly concerned with the development of any characters but Columbus, and even he is a little distant, but it is a rare instance where characterization is secondary yet competently executed.
	www.amazon.de /exec/obidos/ASIN/0812508645 (1024 words)

	Bibliography: Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus
		Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996, Tor, 0312861222, $200.95, 351pp, hc)
		Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996, SFBC, #11686, $11.98, 351pp, hc)
		Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1997, Tor, 0812508645, $6.99, 402pp, pb)
	www.isfdb.org /cgi-bin/title.cgi?3098 (134 words)

	Pastwatch by Orson Scott Card
		"Pastwatch" was recommended to me by my good friend Sue Lee while on a trip to Boston in February 2003.
		Without giving away too much of the plot (although I do give away some of it), the book is set in the far future where mankind, having been much reduced by the ravages of war and industrial pollution, has at last settled into a reasonably utopian society.
		One thread of the story tells of the Pastwatch researchers and their efforts to understand the past and the possibilities of what might have been.
	www.nnbtv.dircon.co.uk /Books/2003/PastWatch.html (1227 words)

	Paradox Interactive Forums - Pastwatch: Japan: 1936
		The whispers of the other members of Pastwatch were drowned out by the warm voice of the reporter filling the chamber with the news of the day.
		I would never have thought to apply Pastwatch (which is, incidentally, probably my favorite book by Card, who is one of my favorite writers) to HOI, but it's a brilliant idea.
		Pastwatch had done its best to model the pistol to look like a Luger 9mm to the casual observer, but with all the refinements that the future could provide within the design limits.
	www.europa-universalis.com /forum/printthread.php?t=85107 (3132 words)

	Amazon.com: Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus: Books: Orson Scott Card (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		There are collections of "What If" books around that can provide other examples, but "Pastwatch" is at the heart of the so many issues important to the study of history that it is at the top of the list in its utility.
		The novel is set in a post-apocolyptic world where humankind has both developed the technology to manipulate weather patterns to increase crop production and fix environmental damage wrought in the past and where people rejected technological advances like houses and beds for straw huts and sleeping mats.
		Pastwatch is an international agency that lives up to its name - its employees watch the past.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312850581?v=glance (2606 words)

	Eugene England: Pastwatch: The Redemption of Orson Scott Card
		Columbus, who, just five years ago, at the quincentennary in 1992, lots of people cast into outer darkness, is, of course, redeemed in Scott's book, but so are lots of others, in fact all the others and in some astounding ways--and all mainly through redemptive love and grace.
		They see in him "the place where the smallest, simplest change would save the world from the most suffering" (48) and agree to spend their lives finding out if it might be possible to do it and then, if the people of their own time agree it's worth it and right, to go ahead.
		The third intervener is Hanahpu, a descendant of the Mayans, who has used Pastwatch to study his ancestors and neighboring civilizations and developed a remarkable theory about how they were weakened by human sacrifice and lack of metallurgy--and with very little change might have been more than a match for the Europeans.
	humanities.byu.edu /mldb/eng-osc.htm (5764 words)

	Harvey's Book Review Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In one of his latest novels Pastwatch (I'll dispense with the subtitle), he envisions a humanity that almost destroyed itself through pollution, overpopulation, and deforestation.
		So while the Earth and humanity were recovering from the previous devastation, humanity was also re-examining the past, looking for all the things that were thought lost forever.
		So was born Pastwatch, the organization dedicated to rediscovering the past.
	www.kaneoheboy.com /books/pastwatch.html (455 words)

	Pastwatch 0.8.x User Manual - 2. Installation
		Pastwatch stores a local replica of the project repositories that you use.
		Pastwatch may behave unpredictably if the local replica is stored on a networked file system.
		You should select a location that is fairly reliable because it is time consuming to repopulate the local replica and the local replica will contain the only copy of your newest changes until you upload them to the Aqua Hosting Service.
	pdos.csail.mit.edu /pastwatch-manual/manual_2.html (519 words)

	Book Review: RIM, The Tranquillity Alternative, Worldwar: Upsetting the Balance, Pastwatch
		One Pastwatch researcher, a young woman named Tagiri, departs from conventional research because she follows subjects backward rather than forward in time.
		These disturbing scenes are intercut with a speculative biography of Christopher Columbus that begins in his boyhood, focusing on his motivations to explore the sea and find a new route to the Orient.
		The project consumes many years of Tagiri's life, until one day she and Hassan, a fellow colleague, make the startling discovery that the people of the past can see the Pastwatch researchers while the Tempoview is in operation.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue18/books.html (1968 words)

	Pastwatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The members of Pastwatch use machines to observe and record human history: they can only observe: they cannot interfere.
		A novice to Pastwatch joins the team, and stumbles upon an event in history that suggests otherwise: a women from ancient history relates a mystical experience whereby observers in a far distant future watch her and her clan; indeed, she even describes the new member of Pastwatch, and talks as if to her personally.
		Pastwatch, by Orson Scott Card, is superb science fiction published by Tom Doherty Associates, in 1996.
	www.holysmoke.org /sdhok/book05.htm (289 words)

	Orson Scott Card: Pastwatch
		The prologue, which gives some background to the far future in which the Pastwatch Project is set, is exceptionally wordy and does not particularly add anything to the story as a whole.
		The second is the story of how the Pastwatch Project, set up to watch events in history, discovers they can effect those events in a limited way.
		However, whereas Candide was looking for himself, the Pastwatch Project was so altruistic, few voices were raised in dissent when it was announced that they would siece to exist when the change went through.
	www.sfsite.com /~silverag/card.html (491 words)

	Tachyon-City.com » Blog Archive » Pastwatch reviewed, a new T-shirt, and the psychology of religion.
		From our Credit Where Credit Is Due Dept.: Chad, not too long ago the target of my dressing-down, has shown those superior qualities for which I’ve been friends with him these past few years.
		He’s posted a fair review of Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus by Orson Scott Card, who may not be Chad’s least favorite author but is definitely Chad’s least favorite person who is also an author.
		Of course, I wasn’t demanding that Chad acknowledge Pastwatch as one of the greatest works of the English language (though I may hold the line when he gets as far as Saints).
	www.tachyon-city.com /?p=454 (452 words)

	The Laboratorium: Pastwatch Watch
		It was, all in all, better than I was expecting, although at several points I feared it would be much worse.
		But the plot is clever, the character of Columbus himself is vivid, and some of the ideas are quite striking.
		The thing that I like most about Pastwatch is that Card takes this latent paradox and mines it for its moral significance.
	www.laboratorium.net /archives/PastwatchWatch.html (768 words)

	The Philotic Web Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Also, there is a third pastwatch that will be written that will most likely be titled Pastwatch: Eden.
		I don't know, I would read a pastwatch book even if it was on the history of monkeys.
		Well I suppose he could have different characters, since apparently Pastwatch is the future in every timeline.
	www.philoticweb.net /openbb/read.php?TID=2182 (1289 words)

	Pastwatch -- Orson Scott Card (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Historically, the first book or two in a Card series is brilliant, and the subsequent books although not weak, are not as strong as might be hoped.
		Given this perspective, it is not so surprising that PASTWATCH, the first book in a new series, is as sharp as it is, until you consider the HOMECOMING books.
		Beyond science fiction, PASTWATCH is a historical novel about Christopher Columbus, and the events and qualities that make him great.
	www.ece.cmu.edu /~kmeter/nuns/pastwatch.html (466 words)

	Pastwatch: The Movie
		Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus is one of Orson Scott Card's best novels (and one of the only non-series novels he has written for a long time).
		Of course, once the producer and author read it, I'm sure there will be changes and corrections, but for now, it's a big load off my mind.
		Currently, he is busy adapting two of his father's stories -- "Pathwatch" [sic; i.e., "Pastwatch"] and "Dogwalker." He credits his father for teaching him how to write.
	www.ldsfilm.com /announced/Pastwatch.html (1343 words)

	Orson Scott Card's Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus. The Eternal Night Science Fiction, Fantasy and ...
		The Pastwatch is a research project where historians view the past and attempt to interpret the events they view.
		Tagiri is an African woman working at Pastwatch who makes Slavery her personal project.
		The other half of this novel is a fictionalised life of Christopher Columbus, and his attempts to get backing for his proposed voyage westward from Europe to find a quicker passage to the Orient.
	www.eternalnight.co.uk /books/c/cardorsonscott/pastwatch.html (263 words)

	Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (Book Review)
		That is what Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author Orson Scott Card has done in his novel Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus.
		Columbus may not have seen the problem with allowing such things at the time, but what if something happened that made him question the right of those with white skin to look down upon and deny rights to those with skin that is brown.
		I came across some interesting ideas a couple of weeks ago regarding Columbus: apparently he was greatly influenced by, and actually believed, reports of an Island of Seven Cities, a land of Spanish...
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/sf_and_society/36756 (407 words)

	Pastwatch by Orson Scott Card Detailed Book Review
		As researchers study the history of slavery, they begin to focus on the one pivotal person that transformed the world: Columbus.
		His motivations, history and personality are revealed by Pastwatch, the organization that studies the past.
		As the observation of Columbus progresses, scientists identifies surprising motivations for his quest to sail to Asia and an opportunity to change the past, possibly stopping the imminent destruction of life on earth.
	www.allreaders.com /Topics/info_5183.asp?BSID=44087144 (389 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Orson Scott Card - Pastwatch: The Flood at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		There is an organization in this future that manages the time-viewing activities: Pastwatch.
		Card's story focuses principally on five members of Pastwatch: Tagiri, Hassan, Kemal, Diko and Hunaphu.
		Interwoven with their fears and dreams are episodes from the life of Christopher Columbus.
	www.epinions.com /book-review-7752-E589770-37FAD257-bd4 (671 words)

	Speak Stiltedly and Wear a Yellow Shirt » Pastwatch, Walk to the End of the World, Motherlines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Pastwatch, Walk to the End of the World, Motherlines
		Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus by Orson Scott Card manages to blame Columbus for everything from smallpox to World War III, yet gets him off the hook in the end.
		A post-war PC future uses time-travel TV’s to watch Columbus and other horrors of the past, making for two intertwined plots.
	ficml.awardspace.com /jemimap/wordpress/2004/05/15/pastwatch-walk-to-the-end-of-the-world-motherlines (447 words)

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