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Ender's Shadow

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| School & Library Binding | 9780613897389

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Orson Scott Card brings us back to the very beginning of his brilliant Ender Quartet, with a novel that allows us to reenter that world anew.

With all the power of his original creation, Card has created a parallel volume to Ender's Game, a book that expands and compliments the first, Continue

Orson Scott Card brings us back to the very beginning of his brilliant Ender Quartet, with a novel that allows us to reenter that world anew.

With all the power of his original creation, Card has created a parallel volume to Ender's Game, a book that expands and compliments the first, enhancing its power, illuminating its events and its powerful conclusion.

The human race is at War with the "Buggers", an insect-like alien race. The first battles went badly, and now as Earth prepares to defend itself against the imminent threat of total destruction at the hands of an inscrutable alien enemy, all focus is on the development and training of military geniuses who can fight such a war, and win.

The long distances of interstellar space have given hope to the defenders of Earth--they have time to train these future commanders up from childhood, forging then into an irresisible force in the high orbital facility called the Battle School.

Andrew "Ender" Wiggin was not the only child in the Battle School; he was just the best of the best. In this new book, card tells the story of another of those precocious generals, the one they called Bean--the one who became Ender's right hand, part of his team, in the final battle against the Buggers.

Bean's past was a battle just to survive. He first appeared on the streets of Rotterdam, a tiny child with a mind leagues beyond anyone else's. He knew he could not survive through strength; he used his tactical genius to gain acceptance into a children's gang, and then to help make that gang a template for success for all the others. He civilized them, and lived to grow older.

Bean's desperate struggle to live, and his success, brought him to the attention of the Battle School's recruiters, those people scouring the planet for leaders, tacticians, and generals to save Earth from the threat of alien invasion. Bean was sent into orbit, to the Battle School. And there he met Ender....

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  • Ender's Shadow

    When Orson Scott Card wrote Ender's Game, he focused on the character of Ender Wiggin. By doing so, he created a character strong enough to survive through three sequels. At the same time, the support characters in Ender's Game were relegated to the ... (read full critics)

    sfsite published on Fri, 3 Sep 2010

  • Ender's Shadow

    I've never read Ender's Game, the Orson Scott Card novel that made such a hit back in 1985, so I figured I'd make a pretty good test subject to see if Card's new novel, Ender's Shadow, stands on its own. Neither a sequel nor a prequel, Ender's Shadow ... (read full critics)

    sfsite published on Fri, 3 Sep 2010

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    It took me a little while to realize it was just a re-telling of Ender's Game, but I LOVE Bean, and I think I might have enjoyed this one more than Ender's Game.

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