With all the dazzling inventiveness, heart-stopping excitement and storytelling genius of his classic, award-winning 'Ender's Game', Orson Scott Card has written a new science fiction masterpiece to stand alongside the genre's greatest achievements.
Ender Wiggin was not the only young general trained to defend Earth from a terrifying alien threat. Many others had a part to play. But for one of them, it was to prove crucial.
No one knew his real name, but they called him Bean. His early life was a fight just to survive. Even living on the streets, however, his extraordinary talents did not escape the attention of the Battle School recruiters. For in his they recognised a master strategist. Someone who could become Ender's right hand. This is the story of the boy who became Ender's Shadow.