The Ender's Shadow Series Boxed Set - by Orson Scott Card (Mixed Media Product)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>The first four books of the Ender's Shadow series in one boxed set: <i>Ender's Shadow</i>, <i>Shadow of the Hegemon</i>, <i>Shadow Puppets</i>, and <i>Shadow of the Giant</i>, from bestselling author Orson Scott Card. </b> <p/><i>Ender's Shadow</i> <p/>Welcome to Battle School. Growing up is never easy. But try living on the mean streets as a child begging for food and fighting like a dog with ruthless gangs of starving kids who wouldn't hesitate to pound your skull into pulp for a scrap of apple. If Bean has learned anything on the streets, it's how to survive. And not with fists. He is way too small for that. But with brains. <p/><i>Shadow of the Hegemon</i> <p/>The War is over, won by Ender Wiggin and his team of brilliant child-warriors. The enemy is destroyed, the human race is saved. Ender himself refuses to return to the planet, but his crew has gone home to their families, scattered across the globe. The Battle School is no more. <p/><i>Shadow Puppets</i> <p/>Earth and its society has been changed irrevocably in the aftermath of Ender Wiggin's victory over the Formics--the unity enforced upon the warring nations by an alien enemy has shattered. Nations are rising again, seeking territory and influence, and most of all, seeking to control the skills and loyalty of the children from the Battle School. <p/><i>Shadow of the Giant</i> <p/>Bean, once the smallest student at the Battle School, and Ender Wiggin's right hand, 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 wishes 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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"This fine follow-up to <i>Ender's Shadow</i> 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." --<i>Publishers Weekly (starred review) on Shadow of the Hegemon</i> <p/>"The novels of Orson Scott Card's Ender series are an intriguing combination of action, military and political strategy, elaborate war games and psychology." --<i>USA Today</i> <p/>"You can't step into the same river twice, but Card has gracefully dipped twice into the same inkwell--once for <i>Ender's Game</i>, 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." --<i>Publishers Weekly (starred review) on Ender's Shadow</i> <p/>"The publishing equivalent of a Star Wars blockbuster." --<i>New York Daily News on Ender's Shadow</i> <p/>"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." --<i>Library Journal on Ender's Shadow</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Orson Scott Card</b> is best known for his science fiction novel <i>Ender's Game</i> and it's many sequels that expand the Ender Universe into the far future and the near past. Those books are organized into The Ender Saga, the five books that chronicle the life of Ender Wiggin; the Shadow Series, that follows on the novel <i>Ender's Shadow</i> and are set on Earth; and the Formic Wars series, written with co-author Aaron Johnston, that tells of the terrible first contact between humans and the alien Buggers. <p/>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 <i>The Ensign</i>, and the novelette version of Ender's Game in the August issue of <i>Analog</i>. <p/>The novel-length version of <i>Ender's Game</i>, 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. <p/>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. <p/>He is the author many sf and fantasy novels, including the American frontier fantasy series The Tales of Alvin Maker (beginning with <i>Seventh Son</i>), There are also stand-alone science fiction and fantasy novels like <i>Pastwatch</i> and <i>Hart's Hope</i>. He has collaborated with his daughter Emily Card on a manga series, Laddertop. He has also written contemporary thrillers like <i>Empire</i> and historical novels like the monumental <i>Saints</i> and the religious novels <i>Sarah</i> and <i>Rachel</i> and <i>Leah</i>. Card's recent work includes the Mithermages books (<i>Lost Gate</i>, <i>Gate Thief</i>), contemporary magical fantasy for readers both young and old. <p/>Card lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with his wife, Kristine Allen Card, He and Kristine are the parents of five children and several grandchildren.</p>
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