Ascended Extra: Bean and Petra, who become the main characters of this series after getting only a few lines in Ender's Game (despite being two of his best friends, thanks to Ender's isolation).In Real Life, Lenin hated Stalin and tried to discourage him from gaining power, only for Stalin to do so after Vladimir's death. Achilles seems to think that Vladimir Lenin made Joseph Stalin into his trusted Dragon, until Stalin turned against him and killed him. Artistic License – History: In-universe.

The Last Shadow is a sequel to both Shadows in Flight and Children of the Mind, capping off both sub-series.Ender in Exile is described in the afterword as both a ' midquel' to Ender's Game and a sequel to Shadow of the Giant.Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: How Peter perceives his family.Air-Vent Passageway: Used for various stealth tactics.After the End: Of the Formic War, that is.Action Girl: Any female Battle School grad would be this, but Petra and Virlomi are the only ones who have any major prominence in the story, so they get the awards.A final novel, The Last Shadow, caps off both the Shadow series and the original Ender series. Shadows in Flight loses the politics and is more contemporary with the Ender sequels, though still a Bean story. The Shadow series-whose novels might accurately be described as Thrillers-is a more direct continuation of the original novel and its themes of war and politics (with Hegemon being described by its author as 'a giant game of Risk') than the other sequels (beginning with Speaker for the Dead) that focus on Ender's solo journeys. The sequels are Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets, Shadow of the Giant, Shadows in Flight and The Last Shadow. It became the first in a series that follows Bean after the end of Ender's Game, and along the way shows what happened to many other supporting characters from the novel. 'You think anybody will ask me for military advice? Because I'm going to get into this war, even if I have to lie about my age and join the marines.'Įnder's Shadow is a science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card, which retells Ender's Game from the viewpoint of Bean, one of Ender's friends.

Ender's shadow series