Ender's Shadow: Summary and book reviews of Ender's Shadow by Orson Scott Card, plus links to an excerpt from Ender's Shadow and a biography of Orson Scott Card.
Ender's Shadow
by Orson Scott Card
Hardcover: Aug 1999,
384 pages.
Paperback: Dec 2000,
384 pages.
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 companion volume to Ender's Game, a book that expands and complements 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 them into an irresistible 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, his strategist, and his friend. One who was with him, 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....
The New York Times Book Review
Mr Card writes with energy and conviction.
The New York Times Book Review
Mr Card writes with energy and conviction.
Booklist
Card has taken the venerable SF concepts of a superman and an interstellar war against aliens, and, with superb characterization, packing, and language, combined them into a seamless story of compelling power. This is Card at the height of his very considerable powers...a major SF novel by any reasonable standard.
Booklist
Card has taken the venerable SF concepts of a superman and an interstellar war against aliens, and, with superb characterization, packing, and language, combined them into a seamless story of compelling power. This is Card at the height of his very considerable powers...a major SF novel by any reasonable standard.
The Houston Post
Orson Scott Card made a strong case for being the best writer science fiction has to offer.
Library Journal
As a maker of visions and a creator of heroes...Card is not to be outdone.
The Houston Post
Orson Scott Card made a strong case for being the best writer science fiction has to offer.
Library Journal
As a maker of visions and a creator of heroes...Card is not to be outdone.
The Seattle Times
Card is a master storyteller
Ben Bova
A quarter century ago I was privileged to publish the original 'Ender's Game' by Orson Scott Card in Analog magazine. That extraordinary story established Scott as a major talent. Now the saga continues, but in a new and unique way, a way that only a writer as gifted as Scott Card could produce. And our enjoyment increases by a quantum jump. Magnificent!
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this book is almost a required reading for those who read enders game. its brilliant to see how the author was able to keep this entry into the series so refreshingly new, despite the fact that the main characters stories from both books coincide.... Read More
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This book was great but I would not call it better then Enders Game. I feel sorry for any miguided soul that can bring themselves to say they didn't like the book or not give it a Five out ov Five.
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