Ender's Shadow · Book 5
Shadows in Flight
- Published
- 17 January 2012
- Pages
- 224
- ISBN-13
- 9780765332004
- Type
- novella
About this book
After a seven-year gap, Shadows in Flight became the fifth entry on January 17, 2012, a shorter 224 pages, returning to Bean and his children as the series' timeline stretches into its final act.
Its place in Ender's Shadow
Shadows in Flight is book 5 in the Ender's Shadow series. It follows Shadow of the Giant. It is followed by The Last Shadow. 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 9780765332004