Series: Book 5 in the The Ender Saga series
Rating: Not rated
Tags: Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Lang:en
Summary
Orson Scott Card brings us back to the
very beginning of his brilliant Ender Quartet, with a novel
that allows us to reenter that world anew.With all the power of
his original creation, Card has created a parallel volume to
Ender's Game, a book that expands and compliments the first,
enhancing its power, illuminating its events and its powerful
conclusion.The human race is at War with the "Buggers", an
insect-like alien race. The first battles went badly, and now
as Earth prepares to defend itself against the imminent threat
of total destruction at the hands of an inscrutable alien
enemy, all focus is on the development and training of military
geniuses who can fight such a war, and win.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 then into an irresisible force in the high
orbital facility called the Battle School.Andrew "Ender" Wiggin
was not the only child in the Battle School; he was just the
best of the best. In this new book, 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.Bean's past was a
battle just to survive. He first appeared on the streets of
Rotterdam, a tiny child with a mind leagues beyond anyone
else's. He knew he could not survive through strength; he used
his tactical genius to gain acceptance into a children's gang,
and then to help make that gang a template for success for all
the others. He civilized them, and lived to grow older.Bean's
desperate struggle to live, and 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 was sent
into orbit, to the Battle School. And there he met
Ender....