{"product_id":"enders-shadow-1","title":"Ender's Shadow","description":"Orson Scott Card brings us back to the very beginning of his brilliant Ender Quartet, with the novel that begins The Shadow Series and allows us to reenter Ender's world anew.\n\nWith all the power of his original creation, Ender's Shadow is Card's parallel volume to Ender's Game, a book that expands and complements the first, enhancing its power, illuminating its events and its powerful conclusion.\n\nThe human race is at War with the \"Buggers\", an insect-like alien race. The first battles went badly, and now as Earth prepares to defend itself against the imminent threat of total destruction at the hands of an inscrutable alien enemy, all focus is on the development and training of military geniuses who can fight such a war, and win.\n\nThe long distances of interstellar space have given hope to the defenders of Earth--they have time to train these future commanders up from childhood, forging then into an irresistible force in the high orbital facility called the Battle School.\n\nAndrew \"Ender\" Wiggin was not the only child in the Battle School; he was just the best of the best. In this new book, card tells the story of another of those precocious generals, the one they called Bean--the one who became Ender's right hand, part of his team, in the final battle against the Buggers.\n\nBean's 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's. He knew he could not survive through strength; he used his tactical genius to gain acceptance into a children's gang, and then to help make that gang a template for success for all the others. He civilized them, and lived to grow older.\n\nBean's desperate struggle to live, and his success, brought him to the attention of the Battle School's recruiters, those people scouring the planet for leaders, tacticians, and generals to save Earth from the threat of alien invasion. Bean was sent into orbit, to the Battle School. And there he met Ender....\n\nTHE ENDER UNIVERSE\n\nEnder series\nEnder’s Game \/ Ender in Exile \/ Speaker for the Dead \/ Xenocide \/ Children of the Mind\n\nEnder’s Shadow series\nEnder’s Shadow \/ Shadow of the Hegemon \/ Shadow Puppets \/ Shadow of the Giant \/ Shadows in Flight\n\nChildren of the Fleet\n\nThe First Formic War (with Aaron Johnston)\nEarth Unaware \/ Earth Afire \/ Earth Awakens\n\nThe Second Formic War (with Aaron Johnston)\nThe Swarm \/The Hive\n\nEnder novellas\nA War of Gifts \/First Meetings\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 031286860X\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.031286860X.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Card, Orson Scott\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41508714545210,"sku":"DBV.031286860X.G","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/031286860X-0.jpg?v=1783365559","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/enders-shadow-1","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}