![]() ![]() ![]() The Shadow series then follows Bean in the Twenty More Minutes Into The Future Earth, consisting of Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets, and Shadow of the Giant. The second begins with Ender's Shadow, a retelling of Ender's Game from the viewpoint of Bean, one of his friends. The first, consisting of A War of Gifts: An Ender Story, Ender in Exile, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind follow Ender in the far future and focus on worldbuilding combined with a major dose of morality. The novel acted as a springboard for not one but two series, dealing with different time periods in the same canon. He is the only one of his family to be accepted to the school, and so, leaving behind his parents, his loving sister Valentine, and his sadistic brother Peter, he leaves for Battle School. ![]() And the biggest, best game of all is the Battle Room, where they organize into "armies" and play 41-on-41 zero-G laser tag as the adults look on, searching for future commanders against the incoming menace.Įnter Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, six years old and third child of his family, a stigma due to the population restriction laws. There they study physics, mathematics, history, psychology, politics, and play a lot of games. As the threat of a third invasion looms nigh, the world's most talented children are taken to an orbiting Battle School. In the not-too-distant future, mankind has barely survived two invasions by an insectoid alien race, formally known as Formics, but called Buggers by most of the viewpoint characters. The book that put Orson Scott Card on the map, and remains his most famous work ever. ![]()
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