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 ...
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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....
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Near Fine in Near FIne jacket. A parallel novel to "Ender's Game", recounting the story of Ender's right-hand man, Bean. Very clean and unmarked copy with near fine dust jacket. Unread condition-mint. All of our books ship with jacket covers.
I am a big fan of the Enders books and this did not disappoint! All went well with ordering delivery and condition. I highly recommend the book and Albris as a vendor
brotherwillow
Jul 18, 2008
Return to the Beginning!
Having read all 4 of the Ender books I found this one to be just as awesome in its depth and breadth as a story. It reminded me of why I fell in love with Ender's Game in the first place. While the Ender series became very complex after the first book, this one takes us back to the beginning and shows the story from another point of view. Highly recommended to everyone who enjoyed Ender's Game.
