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.
Key facts about Shadows in Flight
Orson Scott Card wrote Shadows in Flight, a novella on our list. It has been out since 17 January 2012. The book has 224 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novella. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780765332004 to find the main one.
Shadows in Flight is book 5 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
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