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by: Orson Scott Card See Larger Image Our Price: $5.99 Prices subject to change. Used Price: $2.50 Collectible Price: $10.00 Third Party New Price: $2.80 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours This item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping. Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780765342409 ISBN: 0765342405 Label: Starscape Manufacturer: Starscape Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 480 Publication Date: May 19, 2002 Publisher: Starscape Reading Level: Young Adult Sales Rank: 19095 Studio: Starscape Related Items: Children of the Mind (Ender, Book 4) Shadow of the Hegemon (Ender, Book 6) Xenocide (Ender, Book 3) Speaker for the Dead (Ender, Book 2) Shadow Puppets (Ender, Book 7) see more Editorial Review: Product Description: Welcome to Battleschool. Growing up is never easy. But try living on the mean streets as a child begging for food and fighting like a dog with ruthless gangs of starving kids who wouldn't hesitate to pound your skull into pulp for a scrap of apple. If Bean has learned anything on the streets, it's how to survive. And not with fists. He is way too small for that. But with brains. Bean is a genius with a magician's ability to zero in on his enemy and exploit his weakness. What better quality for a future general to lead the Earth in a final climactic battle against a hostile alien race, known as Buggers. At Battleschool Bean meets and befriends another future commander - Ender Wiggins - perhaps his only true rival. Only one problem: for Bean and Ender, the future is now. Amazon.com Review: Ender's Shadow is being dubbed as a parallel novel to Orson Scott Card's Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Ender's Game. By 'parallel,' Card means that Shadow begins and ends at roughly the same time as Game, and it chronicles many of the same events. In fact, the two books tell an almost identical story of brilliant children being trained in the orbiting Battle School to lead humanity's fleets in the final war against alien invaders known as the Buggers. The most brilliant of these young recruits is Ender Wiggin, an unparalleled commander and tactician who can surely defeat the Buggers if only he can overcome his own inner turmoil. Second among the children is Bean, who becomes Ender's lieutenant despite the fact that he is the smallest and youngest of the Battle School students. Bean is the central character of Shadow, and we pick up his story when he is just a 2-year-old starving on the streets of a future Rotterdam that has become a hell on earth. Bean is unnaturally intelligent for his age, which is the only thing that allows him to escape--though not unscathed--the streets and eventually end up in Battle School. Despite his brilliance, however, Bean is doomed to live his life as an also-ran to the more famous and in many ways more brilliant Ender. Nonetheless, Bean learns things that Ender cannot or will not understand, and it falls to this once pathetic street urchin to carry the weight of a terrible burden that Ender must not be allowed to know. Although it may seem like Shadow is merely an attempt by Card to cash in on the success of his justly famous Ender's Game, that suspicion will dissipate once you turn the first few pages of this engrossing novel. It's clear that Bean has a story worth telling, and that Card (who started the project with a cowriter but later decided he wanted it all to himself) is driven to tell it. And though much of Ender's Game hinges on a surprise ending that Card fans are likely well acquainted with, Shadow manages to capitalize on that same surprise and even turn the table on readers. In the end, it seems a shame that Shadow, like Bean himself, will forever be eclipsed by the myth of Ender, because this is a novel that can easily stand on its own. Luckily for readers, Card has left plenty of room for a sequel, so we may well be seeing more of Bean in the near future. --Craig E. Engler Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - Better than Ender's Game I really liked Ender's Game, and then I read Ender's Shadow....I must say, Ender's Shadow, In my opinion, is just...Better. I love Bean. I believe that may be the reason I like this book so much, because the character Bean is so likable by ME. I love the way Orson Scott Card lays out his characters. All of them have depth. The "scenery" Card paints for us is so speculative. I have this perception of battle school in my head such that I would LOVE to go there. I want to be part of Ender's team. I ... Read More Rating: - That bean is a character Out of all the books in the series, this one was especially awesome. I'm surprised by some of the weak unfavorable reviews for this book. I found it to be throughly awesome. Bean's childhood was insane. Card stayed true to the original story and basically retold it from a completely different angle. A lot of good stuff for the movie in this book too...if the movie ever happens. Rating: - Bean there, done that A parallel to "Ender's Game" that is, in some ways, better than the original. This one follows Bean, who is more than just one of Ender's lieutenants, through some of the same events. The boring trips into the computer game have thankfully been omitted because Bean refuses to play. It doesn't replace "Ender's Game", which is overall an excellent novel, but complements it nicely. Rating: - Listen to a well crafted story For me there is nothing better than listening to a book on CD while chewing up a lot of asphalt during a road trip. I discovered this little gem 'Ender's Shadow, at the local library and became an addict to Ender, Bean, and the Shadow series as a result. For those of you that think you have to read or listen to Ender's Game first, don't worry Bean and his story stand up all by themselves with no problem. The author 'Scott Card' has often stated that he believes his books are best when the ... Read More Rating: - Bean Rocks! If you just finished reading Ender's Game, go to this one next as was recommended to me. This is the story of Bean, smallest member of Dragon army. The tale takes place during the same events as Ender's Game but from Bean's perspective. Loved it. Would have given in 5 stars but it took a little bit to get going. 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