Ender's Shadow · Book 6
The Last Shadow
- Published
- 16 November 2021
- Pages
- 288
- ISBN-13
- 9780765344144
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Last Shadow closed the series on November 16, 2021, the sixth and final entry at 288 pages, bringing Bean's story -- begun as a parallel account of Ender's Game from a genuinely different perspective -- to its conclusion.
Its place in Ender's Shadow
The Last Shadow is book 6 in the Ender's Shadow series. It follows 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 9780765344144