Orson Scott Card

A follow-up to Shadow of the Giant finds Bean moving with three of his children into a derelict space colony ship where they hope for a cure to engineered genes that give them high intelligence and short lives, a situation that is complicated when space-time distortions cause them to be forgotten by humanity.

Shadows in Flight

Brent Nef

I've become a sucker for books where the Dad is the hero.

Kireth Sandhu

A short novella picking up years after Bean and his 3 'deficient' children have been hurtling through space. The opening was startling for me, but the children's individual personalities become much more fleshed out after the first chapters. There were also some (age-appropriate) space horror vibes from the abandoned alien ship they come across. Overall, whilst adding something new to the Enderverse/ Shadow mythos, I was left wondering where the story goes next whilst also not really feeling emotionally attached. (view spoiler)[ It was a surprisingly emotional, if not short, ending for Bean. I was immensely dissapointed he wasn't reunited with Ender, particularly after his friend shows up in the Formic hive queen visions.  (hide spoiler)]

Les Reynolds

Interesting philosophical followup to the story of Bean's children, but I didn't find myself very drawn in. Raised some interesting ideas, but I didn't like the way it contradicted what we knew about the Formics. Worth a read if you like the Ender's Game series', but not a big deal if you miss this one.

Cody Degen

Ender's Shadow explores the stars in this all-new novel... At the end of Shadow of the Giant, Bean flees to the stars with three of his children--the three who share the engineered genes that gave him both hyper-intelligence and a short, cruel physical life. The time dilation granted by the speed of their travel gives Earth's scientists generations to seek a cure, to no avail. In time, they are forgotten--a fading ansible signal speaking of events lost to Earth's history. But the Delphikis are about to make a discovery that will let them save themselves, and perhaps all of humanity in days to come. For there in space before them lies a derelict Formic colony ship. Aboard it, they will find both death and wonders--the life support that is failing on their own ship, room to grow, and labs in which to explore their own genetic anomaly and the mysterious disease that killed the ship's colony. Shadows in Flight is the fifth novel in Orson Scott Card's Shadow Series. 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.

Shadows in Flight

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