Ender's Shadow · Book 4
Shadow of the Giant
- Published
- 1 March 2005
- Pages
- 368
- ISBN-13
- 9780765307491
- Type
- novel
About this book
Shadow of the Giant followed March 1, 2005, the fourth entry at 368 pages, carrying Bean's arc further as the series' focus widens from Battle School survival to global politics.
Its place in Ender's Shadow
Shadow of the Giant is book 4 in the Ender's Shadow series. It follows Shadow Puppets. It is followed by Shadows in Flight. 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 9780765307491