Shadows in Flight

By: Orson Scott Card

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki, Emily Janice Card, Scott Brick, Orson Scott Card, Kirby Heyborne

Ender's Shadow explores the stars in this all-new novel...

At the end of Shadow of the Giant, Bean flees 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 gives Earth's scientists generations to seek a cure, to no avail. In time, they are forgotten—a fading ansible signal speaking of events lost to Earth's history. But the Delphikis are about to make a discovery that will 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.

Shadows in Flight is the fifth novel in Orson Scott Card's Shadow Series.

©2011 Orson Scott Card (P)2012 Macmillan Audio

Very Short, not at par with earlier books

What made the experience of listening to Shadows in Flight the most enjoyable?

The Cast was Amazing

Would you be willing to try another book from Orson Scott Card? Why or why not?

Yes, this is the first one, i didn't enjoy of the 20+ i have read.

What about the narrators???s performance did you like?

Voice and emotion of the reading

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

none

Any additional comments?

I hope he gives up on this Short Book experiment. Its fine for new stories, but not on sequel

Disliked the ending

I've really enjoyed the stories in the "Ender verse", including this one. I just didn't care for the abrupt ending.

It's a short book, same price as full length.

Story is ok. surprised it was not longer. Would like a map of the sequels.

Closer for Bean. excellent

Great finish to an iconic character. Deserved his own book and got it. Love the commentary at the end of these books from Orson.

As always very well read

All the books in the enders universe are always amazing and always fantastic, have listened to many times

Satisfying story continuation with questionable performance

As a diehard fan of the Enderverse (have read them all...several times), it took me several attempts at listening over a period of many years before I found this book palatable to listen to. These are my evaluative observations:
1) The storyline makes sense in relation to the previous and concurrent books.
2) Character development is also rational. Each character is odd, including Bean, but considering the environment they have been relegated to, it makes sense why they would turn out this way.
3) The story feels more like a psychological/psychosocial exploration than an adventure-based or relationship-based story, not that those elements are not there. However, the tone of the story has this quality to it.
4) I can not tell whether the reason for #3 is because of the performance of the reader. His characterizations are quite off-putting, to me. The way he reads Bean, for example, makes me believe that Bean’s person has altered vastly since the previous stories. Did Card write him that way, or is the reader interpreting something that was not present in Card’s motivations? Likewise, the children are so robotic and cold. There, I can at least reason out the appropriateness of the decision to cast them that way, but I still find it off-putting.

Wonderfully written, moving story

Orson Scott Card, writes incredible stories! Every single one, is as engaging as the next. I have becone so connected to the characters, that I almost mourn when each book ends. This book was one of those. Another must read.

Shorter length , but with all the story and plot!

This was pretty good, I started listening in the afternoon and couldn't put it down till the end at midnight.
it was great to be able to able to take it all in at once. Very satisfying feeling

Needs a wait and see

What made the experience of listening to Shadows in Flight the most enjoyable?

I really enjoy the Ender series, so just about any continuation will be enjoyable to me

What other book might you compare Shadows in Flight to and why?

Other books in the Ender series, especially the ones about Bean.

Any additional comments?

The book was overall very good but the story line needs a wait and see. When the other books come out, I think there is more anyway, we will see if the story pans out.

loved it

great continuation from sovereign. better actually than sovereign. would listen again, hope there's more to come