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Shadow of the Giant by Orson Scott Card

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Summary

Bean'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. 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. 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 Card's beloved classic Ender's Game, and its parallel, Ender's Shadow. Now, in Shadow of the Giant, Bean's 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 Ender's 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 Ender's Jeesh, new enemies from the wars on Earth. To find security, Bean and Petra must once again follow in Ender's footsteps. They must leave Earth behind, in the control of the Hegemon, and look to the stars.

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3 comments

  • The book is a blast, a fantastic continuation of the Ender series. However, there are about 84 narrators (well, maybe only 5 or 6). The story awkwardly switches between them. All the events are narrated in the third person, but various chapters have different narrators without any clear pattern.
  • Orson Scott Card undoubtedly ranks among the top 10 science fiction authors of all time, and each installment of the Ender series is a true masterpiece that demands to be read, or in this case, listened to, over and over again. If you're on the hunt for exceptional audiobooks in the science fiction genre, 'Shadow of the Giant' deserves a spot among your top 15 choices. If you haven't yet had the pleasure of immersing yourself in Ender's universe, I genuinely feel sorry for the experience you've missed out on, but also envy you as you get to witness the brilliance unfold for the very first time. So sit back, relax, and enjoy the journey!
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