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Bean's past was a battle merely to survive. He first appeared on the streets of Rotterdam, a little child with a mind leagues beyond anyone else. He knew he cannot survive through strength; he used his tactical genius to gain acceptance into a children's gang, and then to help make that gang a template for success for all your others. He civilized them, and lived to get older. Then he was found out by the recruiters for the Battle School.For Earth was at war - a terrible war with an inscrutable alien enemy. A war that humanity was near to losing. But the long distances of interstellar space has given desire to the defenders of Earth - that they had time to teach military geniuses up from childhood, forging them into an irresistible force in the high-orbital facility called the Battle School. That story is told in two books, Orson Scott Card's beloved classic Ender's Game, and its parallel, Ender's Shadow. Now, in Shadow of the Giant, Bean's story continues.Bean was the tiniest student at the Battle School, but he became Ender Wiggins' right hand, Since that time he is continuing to grow to be a power on Earth. He served the Hegemon as strategist and general in the terrible wars that followed Ender's defeat of the alien empire attacking Earth. Now he and his wife Petra yearn for a safe destination to create a family - something he has never known - but there exists nowhere on Earth that will not harbor his enemies - old enemies from the days in Ender's Jeesh, new enemies from the wars on Earth. To get security, Bean and Petra must once more follow in Ender's footsteps. They need to leave Earth behind, in the control of the Hegemon, and appearance to the stars.
