Shadows in Flight
Shadows in Flight—the long anticipated sequel to Orson Scott Card’s New York Times bestselling Shadow of a Giant—begins an all-new storyarc linking the Shadow series back into the main Ender series timeline.
At the end of Giant, Bean fled to the stars with three of his children—the three who share the engineered genes that gave him both hyper-intelligence and a short, cruel physical life. The time dilation granted by the speed of their travel was to give Earth’s scientists generations to seek a cure for the syndrome. But now, just over five years have passed on Herodotus—421 years on Earth—and there has been no cure. The voyagers, the sole bearers of the modification known as Anton’s Key, are forgotten, a fading ansible signal speaking of events lost to Earth’s history. But the Delphiki children are about to make a discovery that may 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.
Hardcover : 240 pages
Publisher: Baen Books ( January 17, 2012 )
Item #: 13-503934
ISBN: 9780765332004
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.25 inches
Product Weight: 10.0 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Good, but not Card's best 
February 26, 2012
I enjoyed following the continuing adventures of Bean from Ender's game. I've always enjoyed Cards work, but was a little surprised that he tried to carry this story almost completely with dialogue. It had a sort of Asimovian feel to it in that regard. I had the feeling Card punched this out on the way to something more--although he still is capable of creating interesting characters and page-turning prose.
Reviewer: Gary R
February 23, 2012
Excellent, as have been all the books in the Ender series, and it was so nice to catch up with Bean again. (I won't give away any spoilers, so I'll just leave it at that) Throughout the saga he has been, even moreso than Ender Wiggins, the most interesting character. My only complaint is that Shadows In Flight was so short and left so much room for an obvious sequel, I could only wonder why this novel was lengthened.
Still, another great inclusion in Card's most popular series.
Reviewer: Justin
not really a novel.
February 22, 2012
while excellently written, as all of Cards work is, this book is more of a prologue/epilogue to a larger work than a story in and of itself. I'll keep an eye out for more on the "ender" series, but hopefully this was just too long of a prologue to another line of stories to publish as part of another novel.
Reviewer: William A
Not What I Expected...
February 22, 2012
I am (or have been) a big fan of Orson Scott Card's series of books that focused on the character Bean, which had its root in the author's seminal work, "Ender's Game". After reading this latest offering, "Shadows In Flight", I feel cheated by an author I respect. "Shadows..." fails to live up to the uniformly good to excellent volumes in the Bean series in all areas, including storyline, character development and level of writing. Contained between the covers of this book is a one-act, two-scene paylet written as an outline for a larger, meatier and better-developed real book. After reading the last paragraph of this book, I felt cheated by a conclusion I figured out by the tenth page and the boring prose through which I was forced to wade to arrive there. Come on, Mr. Card, you can do a LOT better than this weak offering.
Reviewer: A.w. B
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