Orson Scott Card. (2002). Ender's Shadow. Tor Publishing Group.

Orson Scott Card. 2002. Ender's Shadow. Tor Publishing Group.

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     Orson Scott Card is best known for his science fiction novel Ender's Game and its many sequels that expand the Ender Universe into the far future and the near past. Those books are organized into the Ender Saga, which chronicles the life of Ender Wiggin; the Shadow Series, which follows on the novel Ender's Shadow and is set on Earth; and the Formic Wars series, written with co-author Aaron Johnston, which tells of the terrible first contact between humans and the alien "Buggers." Card has been a working writer since the 1970s. Beginning with dozens of plays and musical comedies produced in the 1960s and 70s, Card's first published fiction appeared in 1977—the short story "Gert Fram" in the July issue of The Ensign, and the novelette version of "Ender's Game" in the August issue of Analog. The novel-length version of Ender's Game, published in 1984 and continuously in print since then, became the basis of the 2013 film, starring Asa Butterfield, Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley, Hailee Steinfeld, Viola Davis, and Abigail Breslin.
     Card was born in Washington state, and grew up in California, Arizona, and Utah. He served a mission for the LDS Church in Brazil in the early 1970s. Besides his writing, he runs occasional writers' workshops and directs plays. He frequently teaches writing and literature courses at Southern Virginia University.
     He is the author many science fiction and fantasy novels, including the American frontier fantasy series "The Tales of Alvin Maker" (beginning with Seventh Son), and stand-alone novels like Pastwatch and Hart's Hope. He has collaborated with his daughter Emily Card on a manga series, Laddertop. He has also written contemporary thrillers like Empire and historical novels like the monumental Saints and the religious novels Sarah and Rachel and Leah. Card's work also includes the Mithermages books (Lost Gate, Gate Thief), contemporary magical fantasy for readers both young and old.
     Card lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with his wife, Kristine Allen Card. He and Kristine are the parents of five children and several grandchildren.

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Orson Scott Card brings us back to the very beginning of his brilliant Ender Quartet, with the novel that begins The Shadow Series and allows us to reenter Ender's world anew.
With all the power of his original creation, Ender's Shadow is Card's parallel 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 then 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, 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 ENDER UNIVERSE
Ender series
Ender's Game / Ender in Exile / Speaker for the Dead / Xenocide / Children of the Mind
Ender's Shadow series
Ender's Shadow / Shadow of the Hegemon / Shadow Puppets / Shadow of the Giant / Shadows in Flight
Children of the Fleet
The First Formic War (with Aaron Johnston)
Earth Unaware / Earth Afire / Earth Awakens
The Second Formic War (with Aaron Johnston)
The Swarm /The Hive
Ender novellas
A War of Gifts /First Meetings
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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     "As a maker of visions and a creator of heroes...Card is not to be outdone. "

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   • content: "Mr. Card writes with energy and conviction."
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     Starred review from October 4, 1999
     You can't step into the same river twice, but Card has gracefully dipped twice into the same inkwell--once for Ender's Game and again for this stand-alone "parallel novel." The course readers will follow this time is of the superhuman child Bean. Raised on streets ruled by starving children's gangs, he was too weak, at age four, to hold peanuts in his hand, but ingenious enough to trick the other children into civilizing themselves--and to keep himself alive. When his genius and uncanny understanding of individuals' motivations are discovered, he is sent to Battle School, where children learn to command fleets for the war with the alien Buggers--the smallest kid ever to do so. Bean is not as perfect as Ender Wiggin--hero of the Ender Quartet, begun with Ender's Game and concluded with Children of the Mind--but he becomes Ender's ally. Though Bean is cold at first, the kind of child who weighs the costs of hugging the nun who saved him from the streets, he wants to understand the respect and love that Ender wields. Thus, Bean's story is twofold: he learns to be a soldier, and to be human. Devotees of the Ender saga will delight in the revelations about the formation of Ender's Dragon army and about the last of Ender's games. Though newcomers to the series may miss many of the novel's points, the wonders of Battle School and flashsuits and children's armies should keep them turning pages. As always, everyone will be struck by the power of Card's children, always more and less than human, perfect yet struggling, tragic yet hopeful, wondrous and strange.

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     May 15, 1999
     This new book from leading sf writer Card is not a sequel to the best-selling Ender's Game, and it's not a prequel either. It's being touted as a "parallel" novel. Having already told the story of Ender, the boy wonder who saves humanity, Card here tells the story of Bean, Ender's sidekick and fellow student at the Battle School.

     Copyright 1999 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     July 1, 1999
     Card's exploration of the origins and evolution of ethics continues in a story that parallels that of his classic "Ender's Game" (1984). As a child, Bean, this book's protagonist, displays astonishing precociousness in surviving on the mean streets of a future Rotterdam, organizing children's gangs until he is endangered by his original leader, Achilles. Sister Carlotta, a nun recruiting children for the International Fleet's Battle School, sends Bean aloft and then continues to explore the whys and wherefores of his precociousness. It turns out that Bean's aptitudes are the results of an illegal experiment in genetic engineering of which he is the sole survivor. Meanwhile, his gifts keep him alive and advancing at the orbital Battle School, where he meets and becomes an insightful ally of Ender Wiggin. Card handles the group dynamics of the Battle School with his usual deftness, and his seasoned fans will be happy to reencounter Colonel Graff, head of the most unusual military school to be found in sf and one of Card's best supporting characters. Eventually, Bean is one of Ender's chosen command team in the book's final battle against the Buggers, and by then, Sister Carlotta (another well-realized secondary character) has found Bean's biological family. Card's complement to his great success demonstrates that a tale can be absorbingly told twice, especially when it is told the second time from a different perspective by an author so grown in range and skill since the first telling. ((Reviewed July 1999))(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 1999, American Library Association.)

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     December 1, 1999
     YA-Card has added a parallel novel that occupies the same time frame as Ender's Game (Tor, 1985), and chronicles many of the same events. Children are being tested, the best and the brightest being placed into a school where they will be trained for the eminent and final fight to the death between humanity and the insectlike "Buggers." Shadow shifts from Ender to Bean as the protagonist and presents the events from Bean's perspective, with his own unique viewpoints. Complex three-dimensional characters, a strong story line, and vivid writing all combine to make this an exceptional work. Card revisits the themes of man's inhumanity to man, child exploitation, and the ends justifying the means. While Shadow stands alone, the two books work well together because the overlap builds on both of them, making them a rich and meaningful reading experience.-John Lawson, Fairfax County Public Library, VA

     Copyright 1999 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     September 15, 1999
     Taken from the streets of Rotterdam and sent to Battle School to learn the skills necessary to defeat the alien race called the Buggers, the child prodigy known only as Bean soon arouses the curiosity of the military leaders, who suspect him of being something other than human. Card returns to the world of his award-winning Ender's Game to tell the story of a child's desperate struggle for recognition and self-worth in a world where children must take on the role of soldiers for humanity to survive. The author's superb storytelling and his genuine insight into the moral dilemmas that lead good people to commit questionable actions make this title a priority purchase for most libraries. [Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 5/15/99.]

     Copyright 1999 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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