Ender’s Shadow (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Orson Scott Card
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: An unspecified time in the future
- Setting: Rotterdam and outer space
- Principal Characters: Bean, Poke, Achilles, Sister Carlotta, Colonel Graff, Nikolai Delphiki, Petra Arkanian, Andrew “Ender” Wiggin
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Leadership, Future, Genius, Genetics, Netherlands or Dutch people, Ants, Mass murderers or serial killers, Exceptional or gifted children or prodigies
- Locales: Space, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Orson Scott Card calls Ender’s Shadow a “parallel novel” to Ender’s Game (1985). The earlier novel deals with the training of Ender Wiggin, a six- year-old genius, to command Earth’s starships against the Formics, popularly known as “the Buggers,” intelligent alien creatures with the hivelike and colonizing behavior of ants. Ender’s Shadow tells the story of another child genius chosen to be Ender’s second-in-command and to replace him if he breaks down under the strain of receiving information and issuing orders across trillions of miles at the...
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