Ender's Shadow · Book 2
Shadow of the Hegemon
- Published
- 10 December 2000
- Pages
- 365
- ISBN-13
- 9788379610136
- Type
- novel
About this book
Shadow of the Hegemon followed just over a year later, December 10, 2000, as the second entry at 365 pages, moving beyond the events of Ender's Game to follow Bean's cooler, more calculating perspective on the power struggles that follow the war.
Its place in Ender's Shadow
Shadow of the Hegemon is book 2 in the Ender's Shadow series. It follows Ender's Shadow. It is followed by Shadow Puppets. 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 9788379610136