Shadow of The Hegemon: Summary and book reviews of Shadow of The Hegemon by Orson Scott Card, plus links to an excerpt from Shadow of The Hegemon and a biography of Orson Scott Card.
Shadow of The Hegemon
by
Orson Scott Card
Hardcover: Jan 2001,
384 pages.
Paperback: Dec 2001,
384 pages.
In Ender's Game, Ender Wiggins triumphed over an alien race that aimed to destroy the earth. But Ender was not the only brilliant boy in the Battle School. Ender's Shadow told the tale of another precocious general, Bean, who became Ender's strategist and friend. Now in Shadow of the Hegemon, Bean becomes the tactical genius who wins the earth for Ender's brother, Peter, the Hegemon.
Book Reviews
Publishers Weekly
Children playing at war as if it were a game recalls Card's most famous work, Ender's Game .... The complexity and serious treatment of the book's young protagonists will attract many sophisticated young adult readers, while Card's impeccable prose, fast pacing and political intrigue will appeal to adult fans of spy novels, thrillers and science fiction.
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