Wednesday, April 29, 2009

April Blog #3: Ender's Shadow, by Orson Scott Card, published 1999

Whereas Ender's Game took Ender to Battle School as quickly as possible, Ender's Shadow focuses a lot more on developing Bean's early life, to great effect. It could just be that I'm a sucker for the Ender books, but they truly are awesome.

As of now Bean is living on the streets, doing his best to survive. It quickly becomes apparent that Bean is much, much smarter than your average street urchin. In fact, he has taught himself to read, at the age of four. Yea.

I look forward to reading into Bean's perspective on the Battle Schools isolation of Ender, and how Bean ends up being one of Ender's greatest allies.

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