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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In this new parallel novel to "Ender's Game, " Card tells the story of another child in the Battle School--a boy named Bean, whose past was a fight just to survive and whose mind was leagues beyond anyone else's.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>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. <p/>With all the power of his original creation, <i>Ender's Shadow </i>is Card's parallel volume to <i>Ender's Game</i>, a book that expands and complements the first, enhancing its power, illuminating its events and its powerful conclusion. <p/>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. <p/>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. <p/>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. <p/>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. <p/>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.... <p/>THE ENDER UNIVERSE <p/>Ender series<br><i>Ender's Game</i> /<i> Ender in Exile </i>/ <i>Speaker for the Dead </i>/ <i>Xenocide </i>/ <i>Children of the Mind</i> <p/>Ender's Shadow series<br><i>Ender's Shadow </i>/ <i>Shadow of the Hegemon </i>/ <i>Shadow Puppets </i>/ <i>Shadow of the Giant </i>/ <i>Shadows in Flight</i> <p/><i>Children of the Fleet</i> <p/>The First Formic War (with Aaron Johnston)<br><i>Earth Unaware </i>/ <i>Earth Afire </i>/ <i>Earth Awakens</i> <p/>The Second Formic War (with Aaron Johnston)<br><i>The Swarm </i>/<i>The Hive</i> <p/>Ender novellas<br><i>A War of Gifts </i>/<i>First Meetings</i></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"As a maker of visions and a creator of heroes...Card is not to be outdone. " --<i>Library Journal</i> <p/>"Mr. Card writes with energy and conviction." --<i>The New York Times Book Review</i> <p/>"Card is a master storyteller." --<i>The Seattle Times</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 Quintet, 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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