Orson Scott Card

Shadow of the Giant

Kireth Sandhu

Shadow of the Giant concludes the long-drawn global conflict for leadership of, basically, planet Earth whilst the International Fleet expands the human race into the stars. Bean and Petra are the focus of the story, now searching for their missing children and assisting Hegemon Peter Wiggin in uniting every country under the Free People of Earth (FPE), as they struggle with the gigantism syndrome. Opposing them are Virlomi, whose reality is blurring with her power-hungry persona as the Indian goddess; Alai, struggling Caliph surrounded by pressurising advisors; and Han 'Hot Soup' Zhu, making up for China's past shortcomings with a Mandate from Heaven. All of this is supervised by Graff and Rackham, who also offer all battle school graduates light-speed leadership of offworld colonies. The ending felt suprisingly emotional, with Card doing characters justice after spending so long with them, and overall the world politics whilst feeling slightly recycled did engage me throughout.

Aurooba Ahmed

I tried really hard to like this one. I was able to get past the intensely conservative ideas about marriage in the last book. This one not only goes even more overboard with them, it clearly showed Card's crazy hatred of Islam and Muslims. "Islam has never learned how to become a religion. It's a tyranny by its very nature." Are you kidding me? You could have made the Islamic Empire a villain in the book without writing entire essays (not kidding, there were pages and pages of this BS) about how Islam is an awful religion or how Islam doesn't deserve to be a religion or how Muslims are blood thirsty maniacs without brains. Such bullshit.

But, I'll still read the last book, despite reading reviews about how awful it is. But this book made me lose respect for the author.

Sofia Kim

Cody Degen

Max L

The work of a confident master with an absolute grip on his material - SFX 'Card has taken the venerable SF concepts of a superhuman and interstellar war ... and, with superb characterisation, pacing and language, combined them into a seamless story of compelling power.' - Booklist 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. The fourth book in Orson Scott Card's brilliant Shadow Saga. Books by Orson Scott Card: Alvin Maker novels Seventh Son Red Prophet Prentice Alvin Alvin Journeyman Heartfire The Crystal City Ender Wiggin Saga Ender's Game Speaker for the Dead Xenocide Children of the Mind Ender in Exile Homecoming The Memory of the Earth The Call of the Earth The Ships of the Earth Earthfall Earthborn First Formic War (with Aaron Johnston) Earth Unaware Earth Afire Earth Awakens

Book 4 of the Shadow Saga

Shadow Of The Giant

Asher Black

The Ender Saga continues with Shadow of the Giant, which parallels the events of Ender's Game from a different character’s point of view. 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. THE ENDER UNIVERSE Ender series Ender’s Game / Speaker for the Dead / Xenocide / Children of the Mind / Ender in Exile / Children of the Fleet Ender’s Shadow series Ender’s Shadow / Shadow of the Hegemon / Shadow Puppets / Shadow of the Giant / Shadows in Flight The First Formic War (with Aaron Johnston) Earth Unaware / Earth Afire / Earth Awakens The Second Formic War (with Aaron Johnston) The Swarm / The Hive Ender novellas A War of Gifts / First Meetings At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Shadow of the Giant

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