Ender's Shadow (Shadow Saga 1) [Paperback]

Orson Scott Card (Author)

Book Description

Series: Shadow Saga 1 | Publication Date: August 3, 2000

Orson Scott Card is one of the world's bestselling SF authors, and the award-winning Ender saga is one of the best-loved series in the genre. ENDER'S SHADOW is the first volume in a new Ender series. Returning to the time of Ender's Game, ENDER'S SHADOW follows the incredible story of one of Ender Wiggin's fellow pupils at Battle School. Compelling, compulsive reading, ENDER'S SHADOW is certain to thrill all fans of the original series and attract many new readers. Look out for more information on this book and others on the Orbit website at www.orbitbooks.co.uk

Editorial Reviews

Review

The emotional punch is still as powerful as ever. Excellent. SFX Haunting, compulsive, urgently readable...Story-telling genius INTERZONE Certain to be one of the most sought-after books of the year LOCUS Full of surprises...Intense is the word for Orson Scott Card's ENDER'S GAME NEW YORK TIMES

About the Author

Orson Scott Card is the award-winning author of the Ender saga, the Alvin Maker series and the Homecoming series. He lives with with wife and three children in the US.

Product Details

• Paperback: 560 pages
• Publisher: Orbit (August 3, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1857239989
• ISBN-13: 978-1857239980
• Product Dimensions: 4.3 x 7 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #715,663 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Orson Scott Card is the bestselling author best known for the classic Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow and other novels in the Ender universe. Most recently, he was awarded the 2008 Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in Young Adult literature, from the American Library Association. Card has written sixty-one books, assorted plays, comics, and essays and newspaper columns. His work has won multiple awards, including back-to-back wins of the Hugo and the Nebula Awards-the only author to have done so in consecutive years. His titles have also landed on 'best of' lists and been adopted by cities, universities and libraries for reading programs. The Ender novels have inspired a Marvel Comics series, a forthcoming video game from Chair Entertainment, and pre-production on a film version. A highly anticipated The Authorized Ender Companion, written by Jake Black, is also forthcoming.Card offers writing workshops from time to time and occasionally teaches writing and literature at universities.Orson Scott Card currently lives with his family in Greensboro, NC.

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perspective and leadership, April 17, 2007

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G. E. Williams "Nunah" (California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ender's Shadow (Shadow Saga 1) (Paperback)

Read together with OSC's classic Enders Game, Enders Shadow is a masterpiece of perspective on leadership. While this is basically the same story as the Original Enders Game, Card gives us an improvement on his own great work by way of his improved and matured abilities as a writer, but more so with the unique privilege or seeing a story you think you know through another viewpoint, changing what you thought you knew.

The great lesson I took away from this story is this,
1) The smartest person in the room isn't necessarily the best leader.
2) The best leader always listens to the smartest person in the room

Orson Card is the master of the moral dilemma, the conflicted hero, and for requiring the reader to examine his own motives.

I love this story

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beneath the surface and behind the scenes of Ender's Game, September 1, 2010

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Rachel E. Gray "Reg" (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ender's Shadow (Shadow Saga 1) (Paperback)

I love Ender's Game (Ender, Book 1) as well as Ender Wiggin, and that book will always be my favorite of the Ender books, not to mention one of my all around favorites. That being said, I think this book is better.

This is the story of one of the supporting characters in that book, and as such a large part of it takes place beneath the surface and behind the scenes of what we already thought we knew. As for the new parts of the story, they were inventive, dramatic, fascinating, sad, and well written.

Ender's Shadow revealed dimensions of Ender's Game that fascinated (and some that kind of angered) me, it had many remarkable characters (some of which touched my heart and some of which chilled my blood), and plenty of dramatic events that made me rejoice or cry (and sometimes both).

I gave this book five stars because it was wonderful and it's also one of my favorites. I would probably even recommend it to people who for some reason can't or don't want to read Ender's Game for some bizarre reason, because I think it could stand on it's own. I really do love this book, and think it's excellent, and I really like Bean. But I love Ender, and I love Ender's Game more.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars superb, December 26, 2009

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M. Thomas (Clewiston, FL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ender's Shadow (Shadow Saga 1) (Paperback)

I never thought Card could have written something else as good as Ender's Game but I think he surpasses it with this one!I couldn't put it down and highly recommend it to all fans of Ender's Game.