{"id":3458,"date":"2022-03-27T17:39:30","date_gmt":"2022-03-27T17:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/?p=3458"},"modified":"2022-03-27T17:39:30","modified_gmt":"2022-03-27T17:39:30","slug":"enders-shadow-green-hand-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wsf\/enders-shadow-green-hand-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Ender&#8217;s Shadow (Green Hand Book)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">This book was recommended by a classmate who was also choosing books at that time. Ender\u2019s Shadow is a companion novel to Ender\u2019s Game, which I have read and very much enjoyed. I was interested to see how Orson Scott Card would rewrite a story from a different perspective.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">The book is about earth\u2019s response to an alien invasion of B.E.M. The strategy is to train young gifted children in battle and command. This book follows a child named Bean through his journey as an orphan on the streets to being an officer in the final battle against the\u00a0Formics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">It is an Alien Invasion story with political elements, specifically Russia and China as dominant world powers. It also includes space exploration and technological advancements like controlled genetic mutation. The author describes the two companion novels as a type of parallax.<\/span> <span data-contrast=\"none\">I read the companion novel Ender\u2019s Game first, and there is a similar structure that explains certain parts of the book that aren\u2019t necessarily missing without the companion but definitely enhanced when read together. I greatly enjoyed the book and would recommend it to others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Card, Orson Scott.\u00a0<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Ender\u2019s Shadow<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"none\">. New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 1999.<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<span data-contrast=\"none\">Awards: New York Times Bestseller (Fiction, 1999), SF Site Reader\u2019s Choice (1999), Alex Awards (2000), ALA Best Books for Young Adults (2000), Geffen Award (Best Translated Science Fiction Book, 2001), ALA Popular Paperbacks for Young Adults (2004).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3459\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/312\/2022\/03\/download-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"176\" height=\"286\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book was recommended by a classmate who was also choosing books at that time. Ender\u2019s Shadow is a companion novel to Ender\u2019s Game, which I have read and very much enjoyed. I was interested to see how Orson Scott Card would rewrite a story from a different perspective. The book is about earth\u2019s response [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1412,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wsf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1412"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}