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Shadow Puppets

By: Orson Scott Card
Narrated by: David Birney, Stefan Rudnicki
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Bestselling author Orson Scott Card brings to life a new chapter in the saga of Ender's Earth and The Shadow Series.

Earth and its society have been changed irrevocably in the aftermath of Ender Wiggin's victory over the Formics. The unity forced upon the warring nations by an alien enemy has shattered. Nations are rising again, seeking territory and influence, and most of all, seeking to control the skills and loyalty of the children from the Battle School.

But one person has a better idea. Peter Wiggin, Ender's older, more ruthless, brother, sees that any hope for the future of Earth lies in restoring a sense of unity and purpose. And he has an irresistible call on the loyalty of Earth's young warriors. With Bean at his side, the two will reshape our future.

Shadow Puppets is the continuing story of Bean and Petra, and the rest of Ender's Dragon Army, as they take their places in the new government of Earth.

©2002 Orson Scott Card; (P)2002 Fantastic Audio; Fantastic Audio Is an Imprint of Audio Literature Fantasy Genre Fiction Science Fiction

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Critic reviews

“David Birney's voice sounds purposefully fatigued, beautifully conveying the world leader Peter Wiggin's frustrated resignation, and Stefan Rudnicki's clipped, low baritone is perfect for the cloack-and-dagger email correspondence that bookends the chapters. Gabrielle de Cuir expertly handles both accents and emotion...[Scott Brick] tackles the Bean chapters with the youthful cynicism and passion that Bean embodies in this book, capturing the character's voice with wonderful passion.” —AudioFile

“The folks at Audio Renaissance have quite literally brought greatness to the text. They've included an introduction and a postscript read by Card himself, both of which place the novel and the audiobook in its context as well as enlightening us to the author's method of its construction. Multiple readers led by Stefan Rudnicki work perfectly to vocally illustrate each chapter, character and scene.” —Science Fiction and Fantasy on Ender's Game(A Science Fiction and Fantasy Essential)

“The ideal presentation of any book of mine is to have excellent actors perform it in audio format.” —Orson Scott Card from the afterword of Ender's Game
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The Bean storyline is not as brave as the Ender story, and this book isn't as cataclysmic as the Ender story. Still, it is a great book and if you have read the other Ender/Bean books, there is no reason why you wouldn't finish the storyline. (Just don't expect this book to be as good as the first two Bean books.)

A satisfying conclusion to the Bean saga

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One of the best sci fi books ever made. It's a great time killing with amazing charters. Any age you will live it

Must read

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Brilliant as I would expect from the author. It tells me I need to keep writing to submit my review I wonder if this is enough.

Great

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story was great all the narration was excellent but there are these strange musical transitions which take you completely out of it. they're not even tonally appropriate e.g; sad scene ends -> jolly music.

great story weird music

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I thought there were some major plot holes in this book. This concept where all these kids are geniuses and no adult can compete with them while refreshing for a couple of books got a bit overused here, at least for me. And then they make really stupid mistakes as well which does not make sense. I also found some of the views on the purpose of life of men are quite narrow minded as according to the book I would btw the happiest man on earth if I had like 150 children and only then. I got two and I think that's more than enough!

Not too impressed buy the plot

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