false 9534 17 Orson Scott Card finally explores what happened on earth after the war with the Buggers in the sixth book of his Ender series, <I>Shadow of the Hegemon</I>. This novel is the continuation of the story of Bean, which began with <I>Ender's Shadow</I>, a parallel novel to Card's Hugo and Nebula Award-winning <I>Ender's Game</I>. <p> While Ender heads off to a faraway planet, Bean and the other brilliant children who helped Ender save the earth from alien invaders have become war heroes and have finally been sent home to live with their parents. While the children try to fit back in with the family and friends they haven't known for nearly a decade, someone's worried about their safety. Peter Wiggins, Ender's brother, has foreseen that the talented children are in danger of being killed or kidnapped. His fears are quickly realized, and only Bean manages to escape. Bean knows he must save the others and protect humanity from a new evil that has arisen, an evil from his past. But just as he played second to Ender during the Bugger war, Bean must again step into the shadow of another, the one who will be Hegemon. <p> In <I>Shadow of the Hegemon</I>, Card can't help but fall back into old patterns. But while the theme is the same as in previous books--brilliant, tragic children with the fate of the human race resting on their shoulders--<I>Shadow of the Hegemon</I> does a wonderful job of continuing Bean's tale against a backdrop of the politics and intrigue of a fragile earth. While the novel is accessible, new readers to the series would be wise to begin with <I>Ender's Game</I> or <I>Ender's Shadow</I>. <I>--Kathie Huddleston</I> 2528139 book 2000 Shadow of the Hegemon (Shadow Series, Book 2) total:7912|5:1762|4:3163|3:2361|2:533|1:93| 7912 29704 9690 258 4 2 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Jan 02 08:30:19 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 02 08:38:19 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 1 false false Sun Feb 22 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Dec 29 08:30:30 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 22 21:51:03 -0800 2009
Ender's Game was fun. Ender's Shadow was a similar kind of fun in the same setting. I had hoped Shadow of the Hegemon would follow the nifty character of Bean back to Earth.

It does.... sort of.

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The dialog was just terrible it was always two people judging how smart they ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Mar 21 09:47:04 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 12 19:42:32 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 21 09:47:04 -0700 2009 A year after they return to earth, each of them is kidnapped one by one; except Bean, who is the target of murder.
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Card does a good job writing about wars and political machinations. This was a good "Future History" type science fiction book. Also the science fiction aspects were not too pronou...]]> 2 0 false false Fri May 15 06:04:42 -0700 2009 Fri May 15 06:17:41 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Mar 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 16 06:01:58 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 09 09:19:56 -0700 2009 Ender's Shadow a few months ago and enjoyed it enough to follow up with the second of Orson Scott Card's "Bean books," Shadow of the Hegemon. Unfortunately just like with the books in the Ender Wiggins series focusing on that hero, there was a precipitous decline in how ...more...]]> 2 0 true false Mon Sep 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 21 05:47:30 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 21 05:47:51 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 3 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Fri May 02 19:56:53 -0700 2008 Fri May 02 19:57:43 -0700 2008 2 0 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Dec 13 23:56:42 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 13 23:56:42 -0800 2008
It was as if the author said "Okay, I left of with everyone in Battle School going home, and with Bean being safe and happy in his new hom...more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu May 14 08:07:31 -0700 2009 Thu May 14 08:10:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Apr 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 10 18:53:37 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 10 18:53:55 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Dec 09 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 18 11:21:26 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 21:57:52 -0800 2009 1 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Oct 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 13:32:50 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 10 11:07:50 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Wed Oct 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 26 18:14:42 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 14:08:50 -0700 2009
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