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.
Key facts about Ender's Shadow
Orson Scott Card wrote Ender's Shadow, a novel on our list. It has been out since September 1999. The book has 454 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781574534931 to find the main one.
Ender's Shadow is book 1 of 6 in the Ender's Shadow series. The series has 6 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with. The Last Shadow is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 16 November 2021.
Additionally, Orson Scott Card writes Ender's Game, Tales of Alvin Maker and Homecoming Saga, plus 5 more series. Those series sit on our science fiction, fantasy and historical fiction shelves. Meanwhile, Master Alvin is the latest published Orson Scott Card book on file, from 28 April 2026.
About Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card is an American science fiction author best known for Ender's Game, a 1985 novel following a child military prodigy trained to command Earth's defense against an alien threat, which won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards and remains one of the most widely read science fiction novels of its era, particularly popular as an entry point for younger and reluctant readers. See every Orson Scott Card book in order.
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