Ender's Shadow · Book 1
Ender's Shadow
- Published
- 1 September 1999
- Pages
- 454
- ISBN-13
- 9781574534931
- Type
- novel
About this book
Ender's Shadow opened Orson Scott Card's Ender's Shadow series in September 1999, running 454 pages. It retells the events of Ender's Game from the point of view of Bean, a street child so small and ferociously intelligent that he survives a gang-run Rotterdam orphanage on strategic thinking alone before Battle School recruiters find him.
Its place in Ender's Shadow
Ender's Shadow is book 1 in the Ender's Shadow series. It is followed by Shadow of the Hegemon. See the full Ender's Shadow reading order.
Bean is a street child in Rotterdam so small and so ferociously intelligent that he survives a gang-run orphanage through pure strategic thinking before Battle School recruiters find him. Ender's Shadow (1999) retells the events of Ender's Game from Bean's point of view -- not as a simple parallel-POV gimmick, but as a genuinely different story: where Ender is chosen and groomed to be humanity's savior, Bean has to claw his way into consideration at all, and his cooler, more calculating intelligence reads very…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781574534931