Card returns to the beginning of his Ender cycle with this parallel stand-alone novel as powerful as Ender\'s Game.
THE ENDER UNIVERSE Ender series Ender\'s Game / Ender in Exile / Speaker for the Dead / Xenocide / Children of the Mind Ender\'s Shadow series Ender\'s Shadow / Shadow of the Hegemon / Shadow Puppets / Shadow of the Giant / Shadows in Flight Children of the Fleet 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.
And there he met Ender....
Bean was sent into orbit, to the Battle School.
His 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\'s past was a battle just to survive.
In Ender\'s Shadow , Card tells the story of another of those precocious generals, the one they called Bean--the one who became Ender\'s right hand, part of his team, in the final battle against the Buggers.
Andrew Ender Wiggin was not the only child in the Battle School; he was just the best of the best.
The long distances of interstellar space have given hope to the defenders of Earth--they have time to train these future commanders up from childhood, forging them into an irresistible force in the high orbital facility called the Battle School.
As Earth prepares to defend itself from total destruction at the hands of an inscrutable enemy, all focus is on the development of military geniuses who can fight such a war, and win.
The human race is at War with the Buggers, an insect-like alien race.
The novel that launched the bestselling Ender\'s Shadow series.
A tiny child from Rotterdam, Bean\'s struggle caught the attention of the Battle School\'s recruiters.
Ender wasn\'t the only child in Battle School -- Bean was Ender\'s right hand, strategist, and friend who was with Ender in the final battle.
Card returns to the beginning of his Ender cycle with this parallel stand-alone novel as powerful as Ender\'s Game
