Shadows Alive

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Shadows Alive
Author Orson Scott Card
Country United States
Language English
Series Ender's Game series
Genre Science fiction
Publisher TBA
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Preceded by Children of the Mind, Shadows in Flight

Shadows Alive is a planned science fiction novel by American writer Orson Scott Card, part of his Ender's Game series. It will link the Shadow Saga (the parallel companion series) back to the original Ender Series.

Science fiction genre of fiction

Science fiction is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, and extraterrestrial life. Science fiction often explores the potential consequences of scientific and other innovations, and has been called a "literature of ideas".

Orson Scott Card American science fiction novelist

Orson Scott Card is an American novelist, critic, public speaker, essayist, and columnist. He writes in several genres but is known best for science fiction. His novel Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel Speaker for the Dead (1986) both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the only author to win both science fiction's top U.S. prizes in consecutive years. A feature film adaptation of Ender's Game, which Card co-produced, was released in 2013.

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Connection to Shadows in Flight

This novel was originally set to be titled Shadows in Flight , but Card decided to swap titles with the intermediary fifth book in the Shadow series (released on January 17, 2012), [1] which serves as a bridge to the final book. The concluding events of Shadows in Flight were initially planned for the first chapter of final book, with working title Shadows Alive. [2]

<i>Shadows in Flight</i> 2012 Book by Orson Scott Card

Shadows in Flight is a science fiction novel by American writer Orson Scott Card. When released in 2012, it became the tenth novel published in the Ender's Game series. The story follows on from where the original four "Shadow series" books left off. It is about Bean and his children discovering an ancient Formic "ark" during their journey in space. A sample chapter was released on November 28, 2011. The hardcover version was released on January 17, 2012, and the paperback was released on January 29, 2013. It was nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award for science fiction.

Enderverse Conclusion

Card has said that this book will bring the two series back together again at the end and will wrap up some of the plot threads left dangling in Shadow of the Giant (the fourth book in the Shadow Saga). The events in the book are planned to be after Children of the Mind (the final book in the Ender Series). [3]

<i>Shadow of the Giant</i> 2005 Book by Orson Scott Card

Shadow of the Giant (2005) is the fourth novel in Orson Scott Card's Ender's Shadow series, which is also called the Bean Quartet.

<i>Children of the Mind</i> Book by Orson Scott Card

Children of the Mind (1996) is the fourth science fiction novel of Orson Scott Card's popular Ender's Game series of science fiction novels that focus on the character Ender Wiggin. This book was originally the second half of Xenocide, before it was split into two novels.

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