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Ender's Shadow

By: Orson Scott Card
Narrated by: Scott Brick, Gabrielle de Cuir, full cast
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The novel that launched the bestselling Ender's Shadow series—available for the first time on audio

The human race is at War with the "Buggers," an insect-like alien race. As Earth prepares to defend itself from total destruction at the hands of an inscrutable enemy, all focus is on the development 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 them 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 Ender's Shadow, 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. 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....

©1999 Orson Scott Card; (P)2005 Audio Renaissance, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishers, LLC Adventure Military Science Fiction Space Opera Fiction Thought-Provoking War

Critic reviews

  • Alex Award Winner, 2000

"An exceptional work." (School Library Journal)
"An absorbing, near-flawless performance." (Kirkus)
"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." (Publishers Weekly)

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This is a good parallel novel to Enders game, while it's not a sequel (as much of the Ender/Bean stories overlap) it provides another unique perspective which is well worth listening to

If you enjoyed Enders game, buy this

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I loved Ender's Game, This runs extremely well alongside it. performance of each is great and easily flows from one character or group of characters to another. The way that it is narrated explains the story well, the characters and the images. I know it says that it does not matter in which order you listen tomorrow read these to books, but I personally think that you get the greatest impact if you read/listen to Ender's Game first.

Absolutely Fantastic.

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If you read enders game already, then you will really enjoy this. Totally different and as good.

Not a sequel but a dual book

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What did you like most about Ender's Shadow?

The desperate struggle of a boy who feels totally abandoned and alone to stay alive and win at everything he does.

Have you listened to any of the narrators’s other performances? How does this one compare?

Good narrator

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

No, not as gripping as Ender's Game

Good story but not as good as Enders Game

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Every bit as good as Enders game, would highly recommend to anyone who likes science fiction, and now on with Shadow of the Hegemon…

Incredible

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