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.
Key facts about Shadow of the Giant
Shadow of the Giant is a novel by Orson Scott Card. Readers have had it since 1 March 2005. It runs to 368 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of Shadow of the Giant. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780765307491 to find the main one.
Shadow of the Giant is book 4 of 6 in the Ender's Shadow series. The series has 6 published books. However, the series starts with Ender's Shadow (1999). 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
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