Shadow of the Giant

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The Ender Saga continues with Shadow of the Giant which parallels the events of Enders Game from a different characters point of view. Beans past was a battle just to survive. He first appeared on the streets of Rotterdam a tiny child with a mind leagues beyond anyone else. He knew he could not survive through strength; he used his tactical genius to gain acceptance into a childrens gang and then to help make that gang a template for success for all the others. He civilized them and lived to grow older. Then he was discovered by the recruiters for the Battle School. For Earth was at war - a terrible war with an inscrutable alien enemy. A war that humanity was near to losing. But the long distances of interstellar space has given hope to the defenders of Earth - they had time to train military geniuses up from childhood forging them into an irresistible force in the high-orbital facility called the Battle School. That story is told in two books Orson Scott Cards beloved classic Enders Game and its parallel Enders Shadow. Now in Shadow of the Giant Beans story continues. Bean was the smallest student at the Battle School but he became Ender Wiggins right hand Since then he has grown to be a power on Earth. He served the Hegemon as strategist and general in the terrible wars that followed Enders defeat of the alien empire attacking Earth. Now he and his wife Petra yearn for a safe place to build a family - something he has never known - but there is nowhere on Earth that does not harbor his enemies - old enemies from the days in Enders Jeesh new enemies from the wars on Earth. To find security Bean and Petra must once again follow in Enders footsteps. They must leave Earth behind in the control of the Hegemon and look to the stars. THE ENDER UNIVERSE Ender series Enders Game / Speaker for the Dead / Xenocide / Children of the Mind / Ender in Exile / Children of the Fleet Enders Shadow series Enders Shadow / Shadow of the Hegemon / Shadow Puppets / Shadow of the Giant / Shadows in Flight The First Formic War (with Aaron Johnston) Earth Unaware / Earth Afire / Earth Awakens The Second Formic War (with Aaron Johnston) The Swarm / The Hive Ender novellas A War of Gifts / First Meetings