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| | Amazon.co.uk: Books: Ender's Shadow (Shadow Saga S.) |
 | | Ender's Shadow has pages that are almost cloned from Ender's Game but are new and fresh because of Bean's outlook, and these are expertly handled. | | | Ender is a fantastic example of the unexpecting hero who only wants what he wanted as a child, love. | | | The book was by turns exciting and tragic, and Card's writing style was brief and to the point, focussing on the characters and messages within the story without falling into the trap of excessively descriptive prose to pad the book out. |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1857239555
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| | The Philotic Web Forum |
| | Ender's Shadow is very reflective of the action in Ender's Game, whereas SotH and Shadow Puppets are very...political. | | | I liked Ender's Shadow more than Ender's Game mainly because you come to realize how important Bean was in Ender's future and the type of influence he has on people. | | | But towards the end of Ender's Shadow, he says he wants to somehow be a part of the world, to be in control of what happens. |
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http://www.philoticweb.net/openbb/read.php?TID=2300
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| | Science Fiction Book Reviews |
| | Although women and girls are very much present and active in Ender's Shadow, this book is a glimpse into a boys' world of "snips and snails and puppy dogs' tails": a world of jostling for supremacy, of schoolyard taunts and dares that are deadly serious. | | | While it's often fascinating to follow his logic, the slow buildup may irk those who have read the Ender novels and know the intense, fast-paced climactic scene toward which Ender's Shadow is heading. | | | Ender's Shadow is a fine addition to the "Ender" saga. |
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http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue129/books.html
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| | Excessive Candour |
| | And the book itself is a shadow of its famous predecessor, the novel that signalized Card's irruption into the world of SF. | | | The ultimate failure of Ender's Shadow does not lie in the occasional failure in the cunning of its telling, moments when (for instance) the inevitability of Bean's shadowing-in-advance of the original story become very nearly tedious; the ultimate failure is a failure of philosophy. | | | It is fun to have Ender's Shadow; but it would be very much less fun to live in the shadow its heroes would impose upon a real world. |
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http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue121/excess.html
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| | Borders - Store Inventory - Title Detail - Shadow of the Hegemon, Ender Ser. Series #6 |
| | Ender's Shadow told the tale of another precocious general, Bean, who became Ender's strategist and friend. | | | Now Card returns with the sequel to Ender's Shadow in a tale long-awaited by his millions of fans. | | | Meanwhile, Locke, also known as Peter Wiggin, Ender's brother, is working on his own plan to control the world by more peaceful means and become Hegemon, with Bean as his shadow, or background aide. |
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http://www.bordersstores.com/search/title_detail.jsp?id=51725137
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| | Orson Scott Card - Ender Series |
| | Like its predecessors— Ender’s Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon and Shadow Puppets — SHADOW OF THE GIANT is filled with political intrigue, moral dilemmas and fast-paced action. | | | The novel, Ender’s Game, subsequently published in 1985, has now sold well over a million copies and readers of every genre have made it one of the most popular science fiction novels ever written. | | | SHADOW OF THE GIANT is the fourth and final book in Card’s Shadow Cycle and the conclusion to Bean’s story. |
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http://www.tor.com/Ender/shadow_giant.html
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| | Science Fiction Weekly Interview |
| | Ender's Shadow was supposed to be a single book about Bean, with only a few chapters that would parallel Ender's Game. | | | Card: Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow are under option from Warner Brothers to be made into a feature film entitled Ender's Game. | | | Ender in Exile: Ganges, the working title right now, is also not really a sequel to Giant, though it likewise picks up a couple of plot threads from Giant and brings Ender himself to a colony world where a woman named Randi and her child now live. |
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http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue422/interview2.html
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| | Samuel no Peiji |
| | Readers are in a way required to read the earlier two novels ("Ender's Shadow" and "Shadow of the Hegemon") to firstly, understand what the heck is going on, and secondly to witness the full development of these intelligent, complex characters. | | | For those who have been faithfully following Card's Ender series and the earlier two books of the Shadow series, or have merely read Maps in the Mirror and feel they are well equipped to take on the Enderverse, then read on. | | | The book then spawned a few other books in the Ender series which takes place 3000 years after this. |
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| | News about Ender's Game: The Movie |
| | Warner Brothers optioned both Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow in order to create a single feature film entitled "Ender's Game." Wolfgang Petersen is attached as director, and Robert Chartoff and Lynn Hendee remain as producers. | | | The upshot is that all are agreed on a fairly detailed outline of a film that combines Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow in a way that will combine the most important elements of both. | | | All we'll say is this: Ender is the main character. |
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http://www.frescopictures.com/movies/ender/endersgame_update.html
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| | The SF Site Featured Review: Ender's Shadow |
| | Ender's Shadow serves as a welcome return to this world to those already familiar with it and also can serve as an introduction for people who have yet to make the acquaintance of Ender Wiggin. | | | That said, many of the themes which were first addressed in Ender's Game are carried over into Ender's Shadow, most notably xenophobia and child abuse. | | | Card gives Bean a chance to establish himself as a major character before he reintroduces Ender to the action halfway through the novel. |
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http://www.sfsite.com/09b/end65.htm
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| | Mythic Voyage |
| | Bean's story continues in this sequel to "Ender's Shadow" as the tale of what happened after the destruction of the Hive Queen's worlds is finally told. | | | In the sequel to "Ender's Shadow, " Earth and its society are irrevocably changed in the aftermath of Ender Wiggin's victory over the Formics. | | | With the war over, Ender Wiggin refuses to return to Earth, but his crew of child-warriors returns home. |
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http://www.mythicvoyage.net/enders.html
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| | Curious Cat Orson Scott Card Books |
| | Shadow of the Hegemon (a sequel to Ender's Shadow) will be published in January 2001. | | | Ender's Shadow follows Bean during the events of Ender's Game. | | | Speaker for the Dead (Ender 2), ©1986, Reprint Edition |
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| | Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Shadow Puppets, Leatherbound Limited Edition at Epinions.com |
| | Before reading this book you must familiarize yourself with the Ender series, or at least the first two books in the Bean series, Ender’s Shadow and Shadow of the Hegemon. | | | These books have branched off from the main series, Ender’s series, but two books are in parallel, Ender’s Game and Ender’s Shadow and from there go their separate ways. | | | These brilliant, handpicked children who’ve trained in space to fight off a superior alien race (which by the way did not fight back, explained during the Ender series) as strategist and generals now are so influential and controlling that they’ve become key parts to the steps needed to completely dominate the world. |
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http://www.epinions.com/content_90453872260
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| | Orson scott card shadow puppets |
| | Title: Shadow Puppets (Ender, Book 7) Author: Orson Scott Card Publisher: Tor Science Fiction ISBN: 0765340054 # of pages: 384... | | | Shadow of the Hegemon - Ender 6 Treasure Box Children of the Mind - Ender 4 Shadow Puppets - Ender 7... | | | Shadow Puppets: August 2002, Tor Books Hardcover ISBN:0-765-30017-6 Amazon.com... |
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http://www.dresspageant.com/orson+scott+card+shadow+puppets.html
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Books: Shadow of the Hegemon (Shadow Saga S.) |
| | But compared to OTHER books, Shadow of the Hegemon is superior. | | | More recently, Ender's Shadow reworked the original tale of precocious boy soldier Ender saving the world from alien hordes at terrible personal cost, as told from the different, colder viewpoint of his even younger lieutenant Bean. | | | However, Shadow of the Hegemon has to stand on my bookcase as one of the worst books I have ever read - for the following two reasons: |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1841490660
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| | The Shadow of the Torturer |
| | This is a middle book in a series, and I wouldn't recommend trying to read it without having read Ender's Shadow. | | | In the previous book in the series "Ender's Shadow" the life of Ender at battle school is told from Bean's perspective, this new book carries on immediately after the war against the Buggers has been won. | | | This is the second in the shadow trilogy that tells of the life of Bean, on of Ender's lieutenants from "Ender's game". |
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http://www.diversebooks.com/draft/cocoon/reviews/bytitle/Shadow.shtml
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| | Scifi and Fantasy Forum: Books and Book Reviews: Orson Scott Card |
| | I've read Ender's Shadow and Shadow of The Hegemon too, they were great but not as good as the Ender books. | | | I've read the Ender series and loved it. | | | The Ender series is also excellent, although there is much speculation that the first book was excellent and then it goes down hill from there, but I enjoyed them all. |
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http://speculativevision.com/forum/messages/15/81.html
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| | Role Playing Gamer - First Meetings : In the Enderverse (Enders, 3) by Orson Scott Card |
| | Ender's Shadow began to resolve that problem by presenting them as being very smart, but hiding their intelligence so they did not overshadow their children. | | | This book provides background information on the first three books of the Ender Series. | | | The original "Ender's Game" was a terrific stand alone novel, but it WAS written twenty years ago. |
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http://www.roleplayinggamer.com/item-0765308738.htm
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| | Favorite Author/Book - GameDev.Net Discussion Forums |
| | Also, some good pre-empire star wars books are Shatterpoint and Darth Maul: Shadow Hunter | | | I haven't read the new book, Shadow of the Giant, in the Ender series by Orson Scott Card, but most all of the others were good (Enders Game, Enders Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind) | | | Her use of the English language is excellent in the book, as well. |
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http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=318020&whichpage=2&
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| | Amazon.com: Books: Shadow of the Hegemon (Ender) |
| | Shadow of the Hegemon focus's on the protaganist of ender's shadow, bean aka julian delphiki (WAY better than ender by far) as he stugges to prevent wars while searching for his kidnapped friend from ender's jeesh, petra arkanian. | | | It picks up where Ender's Shadow left off: the war against the aliens has been won, which means that all of the domestic tensions set aside for that battle have re-emerged in full force, and the brilliant children who won the war for Earth become prizes in those battles. | | | But while the theme is the same as in previous books--brilliant, tragic children with the fate of the human race resting on their shoulders--Shadow of the Hegemon does a wonderful job of continuing Bean's tale against a backdrop of the politics and intrigue of a fragile earth. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312876513?v=glance
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| | Books, Listed by Author |
| | * _ Ender’s Shadow ( Little Brown/Orbit 1-85723-955-5, Dec ’99, £16.99, 380pp, hc, cover by Mark Salwowski) [ Ender: Shadow ] Reprint (Tor 1999) SF novel, fifth in the “Ender&; series, a parallel novel to Ender’s Game, following Ender’s classmate Bean. | | | * _ Ender’s Game ( Tor 0-812-58904-1, Jul ’99 [Jun ’99], $3.99, 349pp, pb) [ Ender Wiggin ] Reissue (Tor 1985) Hugo and Nebula Award winning SF novel, first in the “Ender&; series. | | | Translated by Jean-Louis Trudel from the 1999 Alire edition, itself revised and expanded from a 1991 version from Editions Québec/Amérique. |
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http://www.locusmag.com/index/yr1999/b8.html
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| | Enders Game series [Archive] - TribalWar Forums |
| | Ender's Shadow took 99% of what made Enders Game good (government conspiracies and manipulation, that kind of stuff) and re-explained it by saying "It was all Bean, cuz he's a SUPAR UBER GENIUS MAN!" | | | Ender's shadow was good, Shadow of the Hegemon was good, but Children of the mind was just plain awful. | | | Ender is a coming-of-age story from adolesence to adulthood, much like Card's chronological first work - the Worthing saga (another awesome book!). |
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http://www.tribalwar.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-196492.html
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| | Ender Wiggin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Andrew "Ender" Wiggin is a fictional character from Orson Scott Card's science fiction story Ender's Game and its sequels (Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind), as well as in the second part of the spin-off series, Ender's Shadow. | | | Ender signed these books as Speaker for the Dead, and others were so taken by the idea that they too become Speakers, telling the story of the deceased person's life the way they would have wanted it told. | | | This journey takes him eventually to the planet of Lusitania, where he and his loved ones are instrumental (over the next three books in the series) in establishing peaceful relations with another alien species and, eventually, preventing a second xenocide. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ender_Wiggin
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| | CNN - Review: 'Ender's Shadow' - July 30, 1999 |
| | Although "Ender's Game" readers will know the basic outline of the plot of "Ender's Shadow," there are enough new elements and twists to keep the story fresh and exciting. | | | "Ender's Shadow" is also more cynical than "Ender's Game." The men in charge not only don't have all the answers, but also -- through their secrets, manipulation and mistrust -- are harming their own goals. | | | "Ender's Shadow" marks the return of Orson Scott Card to the claustrophobic, intense world of the battle school that first fascinated readers in "Ender's Game." It is entertaining, fast-paced science fiction. |
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| | Shadow of the Hegemon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Shadow of the Hegemon (2001) is the second novel in Orson Scott Card's Ender's Shadow series (often called the Bean Quartet) and the sixth novel in the Ender's Game series. | | | In Shadow of the Hegemon the Battle School graduates, except for Ender, return to their homes on Earth. | | | Ender's brother Peter, acting as his online pseudonym Locke (a conscious nod to John Locke), has caused Ender to leave to another planet so that he cannot be used by world leaders. |
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| | Shadow of the Giant (Ender) |
| | Another reason why this book is a great story is because it is a the conclution to the great Shadow series. | | | Hyrum Graff and Mazer Rackham, ostensibly concerned only with colonization and space travel, support this goal, and Bean- the brilliant but doomed young man who was once Ender's sidekick and is now Earth's most revered warrior - and his wife Petra assist in the struggle. | | | Card's books, and Ender's Game is a strong contender for my favorite book ever, but if he only wants to write women as mothers or insane overemotional hussies, I'd rather he just left them out altogether. |
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| | Planetsuz: My beef with Orson Scott Card |
| | But a decade later, Card decided to write a book called Ender's Shadow, the first in a series of four books that continue the story of several characters that were left hanging at the end of Ender's Game. | | | The imagination and brilliant interaction between characters that make the "Ender" series so appealing are completely lacking in the "Shadow" series. | | | The "Ender" series, despite the failings of the third and fourth books, is a genuine gem in the universe of literature. |
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http://planetsuz.blogspot.com/2005/01/my-beef-with-orson-scott-card.html
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