Orson Scott Card. (2009). Shadow of the Giant: The Shadow Series Series, Book 4. 1 Tor Publishing Group.

Orson Scott Card. 2009. Shadow of the Giant: The Shadow Series Series, Book 4. Tor Publishing Group.

Orson Scott Card, Shadow of the Giant: The Shadow Series Series, Book 4. Tor Publishing Group, 2009.

Orson Scott Card. Shadow of the Giant: The Shadow Series Series, Book 4. 1 Tor Publishing Group, 2009.

OverDrive Product Record

readingOrder

4

images

• cover:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/2390-1/{F86DBDA5-658F-47CE-9860-7A805368E464}Img100.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• thumbnail:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/2390-1/{F86DBDA5-658F-47CE-9860-7A805368E464}Img200.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover150Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/2390-1/F86/DBD/A5/{F86DBDA5-658F-47CE-9860-7A805368E464}Img150.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover300Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/2390-1/F86/DBD/A5/{F86DBDA5-658F-47CE-9860-7A805368E464}Img400.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg

formats

1. • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9781429963916
   • name: Adobe EPUB eBook
   • id: ebook-epub-adobe
2. • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9781429963916
     2. • type: ASIN
        • value: B003E74AHA
   • name: Kindle Book
   • id: ebook-kindle
3. • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9781429963916
   • name: OverDrive Read
   • id: ebook-overdrive
4. • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9781429963916
   • name: Open EPUB eBook
   • id: ebook-epub-open

otherFormatIdentifiers

1. • type: ISBN
   • value: 9780812571394

mediaType

eBook

primaryCreator

• role: Author
• name: Orson Scott Card

isOwnedByCollections

True

title

Shadow of the Giant

seriesId

614371

dateAdded

2019-03-08T20:07:28.103Z

contentDetails

1. • href: https://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=141&titleID=513467
   • type: text/html
   • account:
     • name: Sacramento Public Library (CA)
     • id: 1151

sortTitle

Shadow of the Giant Ender Wiggin Shadow Saga Book 04

crossRefId

513467

series

Ender Wiggin: Shadow Saga

subtitle

The Shadow Series Series, Book 4

id

F86DBDA5-658F-47CE-9860-7A805368E464

starRating

4.3

OverDrive MetaData

interestLevel

UG

isPublicDomain

False

formats

1. • fileName: ShadowoftheGiant_9781429963916_513467
   • partCount: 0
   • fileSize: 1647395
   • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9781429963916
   • rights:
     1. • type: Copying
        • value: 0
     2. • type: Printing
        • value: 0
     3. • type: Lending
        • value: 0
     4. • type: ReadAloud
        • value: 0
     5. • type: ExpirationRights
        • value: 0
   • name: Adobe EPUB eBook
   • isReadAlong: False
   • id: ebook-epub-adobe
   • onSaleDate: 11/30/2009
   • samples:
     1. • source: From the book
        • formatType: ebook-epub-adobe
        • url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/2390-1/F86/DBD/A5/ShadowoftheGiantEndersShadowSeriesBoo9781429963916.epub
     2. • source: From the book
        • formatType: ebook-overdrive
        • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=F86DBDA5-658F-47CE-9860-7A805368E464&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
2. • fileName: ShadowoftheGiant_9781429963916_513467
   • partCount: 0
   • fileSize: 0
   • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9781429963916
     2. • type: ASIN
        • value: B003E74AHA
   • name: Kindle Book
   • isReadAlong: False
   • id: ebook-kindle
   • onSaleDate: 11/30/2009
   • samples:
     1. • source: From the book
        • formatType: ebook-epub-adobe
        • url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/2390-1/F86/DBD/A5/ShadowoftheGiantEndersShadowSeriesBoo9781429963916.epub
     2. • source: From the book
        • formatType: ebook-overdrive
        • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=F86DBDA5-658F-47CE-9860-7A805368E464&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
3. • fileName: ShadowoftheGiant_9781429963916_513467
   • partCount: 0
   • fileSize: 0
   • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9781429963916
   • name: OverDrive Read
   • isReadAlong: False
   • id: ebook-overdrive
   • onSaleDate: 11/30/2009
   • samples:
     1. • source: From the book
        • formatType: ebook-epub-adobe
        • url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/2390-1/F86/DBD/A5/ShadowoftheGiantEndersShadowSeriesBoo9781429963916.epub
     2. • source: From the book
        • formatType: ebook-overdrive
        • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=F86DBDA5-658F-47CE-9860-7A805368E464&.epub-sample.overdrive.com
4. • fileName: ShadowoftheGiant_9781429963916_513467
   • partCount: 0
   • fileSize: 1649325
   • identifiers:
     1. • type: ISBN
        • value: 9781429963916
   • name: Open EPUB eBook
   • isReadAlong: False
   • id: ebook-epub-open
   • onSaleDate: 11/30/2009
   • samples:
     1. • source: From the book
        • formatType: ebook-epub-adobe
        • url: https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/2390-1/F86/DBD/A5/ShadowoftheGiantEndersShadowSeriesBoo9781429963916.epub
     2. • source: From the book
        • formatType: ebook-overdrive
        • url: https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=F86DBDA5-658F-47CE-9860-7A805368E464&.epub-sample.overdrive.com

keywords

1. • value: War
2. • value: Spaceship
3. • value: insect aliens
4. • value: planet
5. • value: colonist
6. • value: cards
7. • value: Action
8. • value: Life on other planets
9. • value: alien
10. • value: exciting
11. • value: space opera
12. • value: Science
13. • value: army
14. • value: Soldier
15. • value: Adventure
16. • value: Thriller
17. • value: Space Exploration
18. • value: action adventure
19. • value: battle
20. • value: colony
21. • value: space travel
22. • value: action packed
23. • value: sci-fi
24. • value: hard science fiction
25. • value: ender's game
26. • value: Wargaming
27. • value: birthday present
28. • value: dystopian thriller
29. • value: hard sci fi
30. • value: books made into movies
31. • value: classic sci fi
32. • value: shadow puppets
33. • value: space colonies
34. • value: fantasy science fiction
35. • value: scifi fantasy
36. • value: scifi horror
37. • value: space western
38. • value: English colonies
39. • value: enders game sequel
40. • value: enders shadow series
41. • value: prequel series
42. • value: speculative genre fiction
43. • value: christmas stocking stuffer ideas
44. • value: best sf
45. • value: enderverse ender verse
46. • value: hugo nebula award winning series
47. • value: military scifi on
48. • value: sf child soldiers

creators

1. • role: Author
   • fileAs: Card, Orson Scott
   • bioText:

     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.

   • name: Orson Scott Card

imprint

Tor Books

publishDate

2009-11-30T00:00:00-05:00

edition

1

isOwnedByCollections

True

title

Shadow of the Giant

fullDescription

The Ender Saga continues with Shadow of the Giant, which parallels the events of Ender's Game from a different character's point of view.
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. 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. Then he was discovered by the recruiters for the Battle School.
For Earth was at war - a terrible war with an inscrutable alien enemy. A war that humanity was near to losing. But the long distances of interstellar space has given hope to the defenders of Earth - they had time to train military geniuses up from childhood, forging them into an irresistible force in the high-orbital facility called the Battle School. That story is told in two books, Orson Scott Card's beloved classic Ender's Game, and its parallel, Ender's Shadow. Now, in Shadow of the Giant, Bean's story continues.
Bean was the smallest student at the Battle School, but he became Ender Wiggins' right hand, Since then he has grown to be a power on Earth. He served the Hegemon as strategist and general in the terrible wars that followed Ender's defeat of the alien empire attacking Earth. Now he and his wife Petra yearn for a safe place to build a family - something he has never known - but there is nowhere on Earth that does not harbor his enemies - old enemies from the days in Ender's Jeesh, new enemies from the wars on Earth. To find security, Bean and Petra must once again follow in Ender's footsteps. They must leave Earth behind, in the control of the Hegemon, and look to the stars.
THE ENDER UNIVERSE
Ender series
Ender's Game / Speaker for the Dead / Xenocide / Children of the Mind / Ender in Exile / Children of the Fleet
Ender's Shadow series
Ender's Shadow / Shadow of the Hegemon / Shadow Puppets / Shadow of the Giant / Shadows in Flight
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.

seriesId

1793831

gradeLevels

1. • value: Grade 4
2. • value: Grade 5

reviews

1. • premium: False
   • source: Publishers Weekly (starred review) on Shadow of the Hegemon
   • content:

     "This fine follow-up to Ender's Shadow features that novel's hero, Bean (now a young man), wrestling with Card's trademark: superbly real moral and ethical dilemmas....The complexity and serious treatment of the book's young protagonists will attract many sophisticated YA readers, while Card's impeccable prose, fast pacing and political intrigue will appeal to adult fans of spy novels, thrillers, and science fiction."

2. • premium: False
   • source: New York Daily News on Ender's Game
   • content: "An undeniable heavyweight. . . . This book combines Card's quirky style with his hard ethical dilemmas and sharply drawn portraits."
3. • premium: False
   • source: Booklist on Ender's Game
   • content: "Card has taken the venerable SF concepts of a superman and an interstellar war against aliens, and, with superb characterization, pacing, and language, combined them into a seamless story of compelling power."
4. • premium: False
   • source: USA Today
   • content: "The novels of Orson Scott Card's Ender series are an intriguing combination of action, military and political strategy, elaborate war games and psychology."
5. • premium: False
   • source: Publishers Weekly (starred review) on Ender's Shadow
   • content: "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 his stand-alone 'parallel novel'. 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."
6. • premium: True
   • source:
   • content:

     Starred review from February 21, 2005
     Card's latest installment in his Shadow subseries (Ender's Shadow
     , etc.), which parallels the overarching series that began with Ender's Game
     (1985), does a superlative job of dramatically portraying the maturing process of child into adult. The imminent death of Bean, a superhuman 20-something Battle School graduate who suffers from uncontrolled growth due to a genetic disorder, leaves little time for Peter the Hegemon, Ender's older brother, to set up a single world government and for Bean and his wife and former classmate, Petra, to reclaim all their stolen children. When Card's focus strays from his characters into pure politics, the story loses power, but it's recharged as soon as he returns to the well-drawn interactions among Bean's Battle School classmates whose decisions will determine Earth's fate. They were trained to fight a (literally) single-minded alien enemy, but that war is over. Now, as young adults in command of human armies pitted against each other in messy conflicts with no clear solutions, Bean's old cohorts must help create a peaceful future for Earth after they're gone. Card makes the important point that there's always more than one side to every issue. Fans will marvel at how subtly he has prepared for the clever resolution. Agent, Barbara Bova. $250,000 marketing campaign.

popularity

368

links

• self:
  • href: https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1BWwAAAA2I/products/f86dbda5-658f-47ce-9860-7a805368e464/metadata
  • type: application/vnd.overdrive.api+json

id

f86dbda5-658f-47ce-9860-7a805368e464

starRating

4.3

readingOrder

4

images

• cover:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/2390-1/{F86DBDA5-658F-47CE-9860-7A805368E464}Img100.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• thumbnail:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/2390-1/{F86DBDA5-658F-47CE-9860-7A805368E464}Img200.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover150Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-150/2390-1/F86/DBD/A5/{F86DBDA5-658F-47CE-9860-7A805368E464}Img150.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg
• cover300Wide:
  • href: https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-400/2390-1/F86/DBD/A5/{F86DBDA5-658F-47CE-9860-7A805368E464}Img400.jpg
  • type: image/jpeg

isPublicPerformanceAllowed

False

languages

1. • code: en
   • name: English

subjects

1. • value: Fiction
2. • value: Science Fiction

publishDateText

11/30/2009

otherFormatIdentifiers

1. • type: ISBN
   • value: 9780812571394

mediaType

eBook

shortDescription

The Ender Saga continues with Shadow of the Giant, which parallels the events of Ender's Game from a different character's point of view.
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. 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. Then he was discovered by the recruiters for the Battle School.
For Earth was at war - a terrible war with an inscrutable alien enemy. A war that humanity was near to losing. But the long distances of interstellar space has given hope to the defenders of Earth - they had time to train military geniuses up from childhood, forging them into an irresistible force in the high-orbital facility called the Battle School. That story is told in two...

sortTitle

Shadow of the Giant The Shadow Series Series Book 04

lexileScore

830

crossRefId

513467

series

Ender Wiggin: Shadow Saga

subtitle

The Shadow Series Series, Book 4

publisher

Tor Publishing Group

atos

5.7

bisacCodes

1. • code: FIC028010
   • description: Fiction / Science Fiction / Action & Adventure