About the Book
Ender’s Shadow explores the stars in this all-new novel
At the end of Shadow of the Giant, Julian Delphiki – called “Bean” at the Battle School by Ender’s
Jeesh – flees to the stars with three of his children. They are the three who share the engineered genes that gave him both hyper-intelligence
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 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.
