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false <![CDATA[Shadow Puppets (Shadow Series, Book 3)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172972243m/234724.jpg 234724 14 In Shadow Puppets, Orson Scott Card continues the storyline of Shadow of the Hegemon, following the exploits of the Battle School children, prodigies who have returned to an Earth thrown into chaos after the unifying force of the alien invasion they stopped in Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow has dissipated. Foremost among these whiz kids is the brilliant Bean who, in Shadow of the Hegemon, rescued his comrades from his nemesis--the dastardly Achilles. Now, the down-but-not-out evil genius is again scheming towards global domination and vengeance against the irrepressible Bean. It's up to Bean and his newfound love, Petra, to outwit the young psychopath and save the world. Meanwhile, the other Battle School children are called to serve again as an expansionist China threatens the stability of post-Bugger War Earth. Shadow Puppets is, for better or worse, exactly what readers have come to expect from Card. There are thought-provoking musings on geopolitics, war, courage, arrogance, good versus evil, and the concept of children wise beyond their years dealing with grave responsibility. Unfortunately, many of these furnishings are looking a little frayed around the edges, but fans will enjoy an exciting, fast-paced plot and a suspense-filled conclusion. --Jeremy Pugh 2393951 book 2002 Shadow Puppets (Shadow Series, Book 3) total:5417|5:1204|4:2138|3:1637|2:365|1:73| 5417 20286 6922 162 5 4 false false Sat Mar 15 16:51:26 -0700 2008 Wed Jan 02 14:48:17 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 15 16:50:48 -0700 2008
I'll admit that I'm growing a bit tired of the "Enderverse" as it's so often called. The cast of characters Card created are great, but I'm growing a bit tired of having so many books covering the same people. The Shadow series was a nice change of pac...more...]]> 4 2 false false Sat Apr 07 12:55:45 -0700 2007 Sat Apr 07 12:56:11 -0700 2007
The importance of Ender is repeatedly stressed, and gets more and more aw...more...]]> 1 1 false false Tue Aug 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 17 18:16:18 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 19 19:44:21 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 13 18:46:47 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 13 18:47:07 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false true Mon Feb 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 13:58:26 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 15:00:39 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Sep 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 20:50:19 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 20:50:51 -0700 2009
The "Shadow" series (Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets, and Shadow of the Giant) follows Bean, one of Ender's lieutenants in the famous "game." Where "Ender's Shadow' is an actual parallel novel to "Game," the r...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Aug 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 23:24:05 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 15 18:15:55 -0700 2009 1 Ender's Shadow and Ender's Game, I'm not really enjoying the setting. Contemporary-feeling world politics and war just aren't working for me. It's like a juvenile version of Tom Clancy or Robert Ludlum. I'm such a fan of the chara...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Dec 14 00:01:08 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 14 00:01:08 -0800 2008
Bean and Petra start developing as a couple, and you get this full-fledged theme of "evolution makes us want to have children and change the world". You start seeing Bean's disease evolve a bit and he starts getting tal...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Dec 10 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 18 11:23:21 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 11:26:14 -0800 2009 1 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Mar 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 21 09:46:09 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 25 16:05:19 -0700 2009 As in Shadow of the Hegemon, my biggest complaint is the amount of conversation. ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 17 23:08:56 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 06:42:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false true Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 00:37:01 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 02 03:35:27 -0700 2009
I wasn't too keen on some things about it, though:
• With this and the previous book, Peter Wiggin somehow seems to be labeled as being less intelligent than both Ender and his sister, while in Ender's Game, he and his sister were both labeled as bein...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Mar 26 18:14:45 -0700 2009 Tue Nov 03 21:43:42 -0800 2009 'I fight like a girl.'"
~Bean and Petra p. 12

"She looked at him thoughtfully. 'You know, now that you're tall, we could probably travel as man and wife.'
Bean sighed. 'I'm not going to marry you.'
'Just as camouflage.'"
~Pe...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jun 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue May 20 08:03:31 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 02 22:14:31 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Thu Jan 24 21:37:41 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 24 21:41:05 -0800 2008 Audible.com

Narrator: David Birney, Stefan Rudnicki, and more
Publisher: Macmillan Audio, 2002
Length: 10 hours and 46 min.

Publisher's Summary
Best selling SF author Orson Scott Card brings to life a new chapter in the saga of Ender's Earth.

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