Hailed as a return to form for Orson Scott Card after a string of disappointments, Ender's Shadow hits the reset button on the whole game. Tweets by 2013 addendum/disclaimer: Please see my review of Ender's Game for an important message regarding controversy surrounding this author. Book cover artwork is copyrighted by its respective artist and/or publisher. In my opinion, both the writing and art here were far superior.All reviews and site design © by Thomas M.

It's such an engaging story.Īs a graphic novel, I enjoyed this more than the source material. I'm a slow reader, but I killed this one in two days. This focused largely on the relationships of this wunderkind with his family, friends and enemies. By way of his monstrous intellect Bean earns an appointment to the prestigious International Fleet Battle School where he meets our titular hero. A street urchin from Rotterdam, with a mysterious past. While the original book, Ender's Game, was mostly about Ender Wiggin, there was someone supporting Ender even more brilliant who was kicking ass and solving puzzles no one else was aware of.

SO I NEED TO KNOW-TO KNOW BEYOND ANY SHADOW OF A DOUBT-THAT BEAN BELONGS TO IT.' IT WAS TO HELP SAVE THE ONE SPECIES MADE IN THE IMAGE OF GOD. 'BECAUSE MY MINISTRY WAS NOT TO SAVE CHILDREN FROM THE STREETS. COLLECTING: ENDER'S GAME: BATTLE SCHOOL 1-5, ENDER'S GAME: COMMAND SCHOOL 1-5 Worse, it is a crisis engineered by the very leaders depending on his graduation to Command School! Sci-fi legend Orson Scott Card's classic novel is skillfully adapted by writer Mike Carey (X-Men: Legacy) and artist Sebastian Fiumara (Marvel illustrated: The Picture of Dorian Gray).

But just as the prodigiously talented Bean's mentor, ender Wiggin, is shipped off to Command School, Bean is thrust into an existential crisis: the discovery of a long-lost brother and the return of his worst enemy, the sadistic street thug Achilles. For now, those secrets will have to wait - there is only survival to manage: Survival on the streets.and survival in the Fleet's rigorous Battle School. From the teeming legions of unwanted children, she has plucked a promising candidate: Bean, the runt of the streets of Rotterdam - with a staggering brilliance as unexplainable as his mysterious origins, the secrets of which may undo every investment made in the child's future as an elite warrior. And Sister Carlotta thinks she has found another one. Now, the international Fleet is drafting brilliant kids to train them to command our forces in the next war. The alien Formics twice attacked the human race.

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