Ender's Shadow

By: Orson Scott Card

Narrated by: Michael Gross

Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins

Publisher's summary

From the author of Ender's Game, the Hugo and Nebula award-winning international best seller, comes the parallel novel, Ender's Shadow. In the first book, child-hero Ender Wiggin battles a deadly alien race and wins. But Ender wasn't the only child in his Battle School. There was also Bean, the one who became Ender's right hand, his strategist and his friend, the only one who was with him in the final battle. Now Card tells Bean's whole story, while expanding and complementing the earlier tale.

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©1999 by Orson Scott Card (P)1999 NewStar Media Inc.

An amazing story

An amazing story from another pair of eyes from a child, Enders Shadow is an intriguing and very touching story of a boy named Bean, with cunning and wits was able to survive the streets and evidently meeting up with Ender in command school and helping defeat the Buggers. If you read/listened to Ender's Game then this is a must and the ending will overwhelm you this is one of the best in SiFI

GO for the unabridged version

Great story, good writing, I've read it in print, but poor audio recording and too much left out in the abridgment process, this version was disappointing. Get the unabridged version!

Good story, Bad Sound

Sound quality is grating, but endurable. It is a great book, and makes you see Bean in a very different light.

awesome and exciting

this book was true to the original and just as exciting. The story delved into another primary character with an equal struggle yet alternate problems that thrill the imagination.

Harsh on the ears

While I love Orson Scott Card's books, this production, which was recorded in the highest compression--lowest quality audio, is painful to listen to even if the story fills in many gaps that the other Ender series don't. The sound is tinny at best--like listening to it through a cheap phone. Nonetheless, this will set you up for Shadow of the Hedgemon, which was a terrific book that I listened to out of order because I didn't know that this Shadow book existed.

Until they come out with a version that is unabridged and recorded in higher fidelity, or you want to read the book, this may be the best you can get. I've not completed my listening, but wanted to warn others about the audio quality and not the story itself.

Disappointing repetition...

As I very much enjoyed Ender's Game (even thought it wasn't the type of book I normally pick), I was disappointed in this 2nd book. By itself, it is probably a pretty good book, which is why I rated it as high as a 3. But I found listening to it soon after finishing Ender's Game pretty boring. Save your money. Though I still have about an hour left until the end, alot of the book is near identical to Ender's game from just a bit of a different viewpoint. While some people have complained that it is TOO abridged ... I feel like only the 1st hour (maybe 2) and last is worth calling a new book.

Audio too bad to listen to

Seriously. Get the other version. This recording sounds like Michael Gross recorded it from inside one of the creatures in Tremors.

I Don't Agree

I don't agree with some of the reviews saying this was a terrible audio book. If you don't intend to read the books, and just listen to them, as I do, there is nothing wrong with this book. I enjoyed just as thoroughly as I did Ender's Game. Of course I'd love the unabridged version of any book, but this was a great story--it was very fun learning about Bean's story and a good prelude to the next book. I also had no problems hearing the recording.

Great story, really bad audio.

I enjoyed the story of Bean and his interaction with Ender. The audio on this book sounds like it was recorded over a cell phone. I've never had issues with Audible recordings in the past and hope future books are better quality.

great story, horrible production..

I've listened to the cd years ago and audible version sounds like a tape recoding of the original.