A COMPANION VOLUME TO ENDER'S GAME, ONE THAT EXPANDS AND COMPLIMENTS THE FIRST, ENHANCING ITS POWER, ILLUMINATING ITS EVENTS AND ITS POWERFUL CONCLUSION.

Andrew "Ender" Wiggin was not the only child in the Battle School; he was just the best of the best. In this new book, card tells the story of another of those precocious generals, the one they called Bean - the one who became Ender's right hand, his strategist, his friend.

Bean's past was a battle just to survive on the streets of Rodderdam. He was a tiny child with a mind leagues beyond anyone else's. Bean's desperate struggle, and his remarkable success, brought him to the attention of the Battle School's recruiters, those people scouring the planet for leaders, tacticians, and generals to save Earth from the threat of alien invasion. Bean was sent into orbit, to the Battle School. And there he met Ender....

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The War is over, won by Ender Wiggin and his team of brilliant child-warriors. The enemy is destroyed, the human race is saved. Ender himself refuses to return to the planet, but his crew has gone home to their families, scattered across the globe. The battle school is no more.

But with the external threat gone, the Earth has become a battlefield once more. The children of the Battle School are more than heros; they are potential weapons that can bring power to the countries that control them. One by one, all of Ender's Dragon Army are kidnapped. Only Bean escapes; and he turns for help to Ender's brother Peter.

Peter Wiggin, Ender's older brother, has already been manipulating the politics of Earth from behind the scenes. With Bean's help, he will eventually rule the world.

SHADOW OF THE HEGEMON

"Shadow of the Hegemon is an ideal book with which to start yuor science fiction year." - Rocky Mountain News.

"The novels of Orson Scott Car's Ender series are an intriguing combination of action, military and political strategy, elaborate war games and psychology."
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BESTSELLING AUTHOR ORSON SCOTT CARD
BRINGS TO LIFE A NEW CHAPTER IN
THE SAGA OF ENDER'S EARTH.

Earth and its society has been changed irrevocably in the aftermath of Ender Wiggin's victory over the Formics - the unity enforced upon the warring nations by an alien enemy has shattered. Nations are rising again, seeking territory and influence, and most of all, seeking to control the skills and loyalty of the children from the Battle School.

But one person has a better idea. Peter Wiggin, Ender's older, more ruthless, brother, sees that any hope for the future of Earth lies in restoring a sense of unity and purpose. And he has an irresistible call on the loyalty of Earth's young warriors. With Bean at his side, the two will reshape our future.

Here is the continuing story of Bean and Petra, and the rest of Ender's Dragon Army, as they take their places in the new government of Earth.

"The novels of Orson Scott Card's Ender series are an intriguing combination of action, military and political strategy, elaborate war games and psychology." - USA Today

Julian Delphiki grew up being called Bean, because he was so very small as a child. But within that tiny body was a mental giant. He was the smallest and youngest student at the Battle School, but he became Ender Wiggin's right hand.

Since then he has grown to be a power on Earth. He serves the Hegemon in the terrible wars that have followed Ender's defeat of the alien empire attacking Earth. But within his genetically modified body is a ticking time bomb - Bean has never stopped growing; from the tiny, brilliant strategist, he has grown to be a giant in body as well as mind. Soon, he will not be able to survive in the gravity of his home world.

Soon, he will have to make a terrible choice.

"Card's latest installment in his Shadow subseries does a superlative job of dramatically portraying the maturing process of child into adult....  Now, as young adults in command of human armies pitted against each other in messy conflicts with no cleat solutions, Bean's old cohorts must help create a peaceful future for Earth after they're gone."  - Publishers Weekly (starred review)

At the end of Shadow of the Giant, Julian Delphiki - called "Bean" at the Battle School by Ender's jeesh - fled to the stars with three of his children: the three who shared his engineered genes that gave him both hyperintelligence and a short and cruel physical life.  The time dilation granted by the speed of their travel gives Earth's scientists generations to seek a cure, but to no avail.

In time, they are forgotten - a distant voice on the ansible speaking of events long past.  But they are about to make a discovery that will change the future of the human race.

"Card's storytelling and world-building are fantastic, and fans of the series will surely be pleased." - School Library Journal