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Ender's Shadow: A Parallel Novel to Ender's Game de Orson Scott Card

Ender's Shadow: A Parallel Novel to Ender's Game: Ender's Shadow

Autor Orson Scott Card Scott Brick, Gabrielle De Cuir
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 noi 2000 – vârsta de la 9 până la 12 ani

Vezi toate premiile Carte premiată

Black-Eyed Susan Award (2001), Alex Awards (2000), Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award (2003)

Descoperim aici o confruntare de proporții cosmice, unde supraviețuirea umanității în fața invaziei „Buggers” depinde paradoxal de fragilitatea și geniul unor copii. În Ender's Shadow, tensiunea centrală nu se rezumă doar la războiul interstelar, ci la lupta interioară a unui protagonist care trebuie să își depășească condiția de simplu supraviețuitor al străzilor din Rotterdam pentru a deveni arhitectul unei victorii imposibile. Notăm cu interes cum Orson Scott Card reușește să reconstruiască universul din Ender's Game printr-o lentilă radical diferită, oferindu-ne o perspectivă mult mai cinică și mai tactică asupra evenimentelor de la Școala de Luptă.

Sistemul tehnologic și magic al acestui univers este reprezentat de celebra Battle School, o facilitate orbitală unde legile fizicii sunt suspendate în sălile de antrenament, forțând mințile tinere să gândească în patru dimensiuni. Putem afirma că forța narativă a lui Isaac Asimov combinată cu sensibilitatea psihologică a unei Ursula K. Le Guin — dar cu un glas propriu, mai tăios și mai alert — transformă această lectură într-o experiență de o densitate intelectuală rară. Spre deosebire de abordările din The Hive sau Infinite Stars, unde accentul cade pe istoria militară extinsă, aici Orson Scott Card revine la tema sa fundamentală: copilul supradotat forțat să poarte pe umeri soarta unei specii întregi. Este o completare necesară care iluminează finalul răsunător al primei cărți, oferind profunzime personajului Bean, mâna dreaptă a lui Ender, și transformându-l dintr-o figură secundară într-un simbol al rezilienței umane.

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ISBN-13: 9780756901530
ISBN-10: 0756901537
Pagini: 469
Dimensiuni: 102 x 170 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Perfection Learning
Seria Ender's Shadow

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte oricărui pasionat de beletristică science-fiction care a fost fascinat de universul lui Ender. Este mai mult decât o paralelă; este o radiografie a geniului în condiții de stres extrem. Cititorul câștigă o nouă înțelegere asupra strategiei militare și a eticii puterii, urmărind ascensiunea lui Bean de la un orfan flămând la cel mai strălucit tactician al flotei. Este punctul de plecare ideal pentru seria Tor MM.

Despre autor

Orson Scott Card este un nume monumental în literatura de gen, fiind singurul autor care a câștigat premiile Hugo și Nebula în ani consecutivi pentru romanele Ender's Game și Speaker for the Dead. Născut în 1951, Card și-a rafinat stilul narativ prin experiența sa de dramaturg și scenarist, lucru care se traduce în dialoguri vii și structuri dramatice impecabile. Opera sa explorează frecvent teme precum sacrificiul moral și izolarea geniului, influențată de o viziune complexă asupra societății și religiei. De-a lungul carierei, a creat universuri vaste, de la saga lui Ender până la seria fantasy The Tales of Alvin Maker.

Textul de pe ultima copertă

A COMPANION VOLUME TO ENDER'S GAME, ONE THAT EXPANDS AND COMPLIMENTS THE FIRST, ENHANCING ITS POWER, ILLUMINATING ITS EVENTS AND ITS POWERFUL CONCLUSION.

Andrew "Ender" Wiggin was not the only child in the Battle School; he was just the best of the best. Here is the story of another of those precocious generals, the one they called Bean -- the one who became Ender's right hand, his strategist, and his friend.

Bean's past was a battle just to survive on the streets of Rotterdam. He was a tiny child with a mind leagues beyond anyone else's. Bean's desperate struggle, and his remarkable success, brought him to the attention of the Battle School's recruiters, those people scouring the planet for leaders, tacticians, and generals to save Earth from the threat of alien invasion. Bean was sent into orbit, to the Battle School. And there he met Ender....

Descriere scurtă

The novel that launched the bestselling Ender's Shadow series--available for the first time on unabridged cd The human race is at War with the Buggers, an insect-like alien race. As Earth prepares to defend itself from total destruction at the hands of an inscrutable enemy, all focus is on the development of military geniuses who can fight such a war, and win. The long distances of interstellar space have given hope to the defenders of Earth--they have time to train these future commanders up from childhood, forging them into an irresistible force in the high orbital facility called the Battle School. Andrew Ender Wiggin was not the only child in the Battle School; he was just the best of the best. In this new book, Card tells the story of another of those precocious generals, the one they called Bean--the one who became Ender's right hand, part of his team, in the final battle against the Buggers. Bean's past was a battle just to survive. His success brought him to the attention of the Battle School's recruiters, those people scouring the planet for leaders, tacticians, and generals to save Earth from the threat of alien invasion. Bean was sent into orbit, to the Battle School. And there he met Ender....

Descriere

Card returns to the beginning of his Ender cycle with this parallel stand-alone novel as powerful as "Ender's Game". Ender wasn't the only child in Battle School -- Bean was Ender's right hand, strategist, and friend who was with Ender in the final battle. A tiny child from Rotterdam, Bean's struggle caught the attention of the Battle School's recruiters.

Notă biografică

Orson Scott Card is best known for his science fiction novel Ender's Game and it's many sequels that expand the Ender Universe into the far future and the near past. Those books are organized into the Ender Quintet, the five books that chronicle the life of Ender Wiggin; the Shadow Series, that follows on the novel Ender's Shadow and are set on Earth; and the Formic Wars series, written with co-author Aaron Johnston, that tells of the terrible first contact between humans and the alien "Buggers".

Card has been a working writer since the 1970s. Beginning with dozens of plays and musical comedies produced in the 1960s and 70s, Card's first published fiction appeared in 1977 -- the short story "Gert Fram" in the July issue of The Ensign, and the novelette version of "Ender's Game" in the August issue of Analog.

The novel-length version of Ender's Game, published in 1984 and continuously in print since then, became the basis of the 2013 film, starring Asa Butterfield, Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley, Hailee Steinfeld, Viola Davis, and Abigail Breslin.

Card was born in Washington state, and grew up in California, Arizona, and Utah. He served a mission for the LDS Church in Brazil in the early 1970s. Besides his writing, he runs occasional writers' workshops and directs plays. He frequently teaches writing and literature courses at Southern Virginia University.

He is the author many sf and fantasy novels, including the American frontier fantasy series "The Tales of Alvin Maker" (beginning with Seventh Son), There are also stand-alone science fiction and fantasy novels like Pastwatch and Hart's Hope. He has collaborated with his daughter Emily Card on a manga series, Laddertop. He has also written contemporary thrillers like Empire and historical novels like the monumental Saints and the religious novels Sarah and Rachel and Leah. Card's recent work includes the Mithermages books (Lost Gate, Gate Thief), contemporary magical fantasy for readers both young and old.

Card lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with his wife, Kristine Allen Card, He and Kristine are the parents of five children and several grandchildren.

Recenzii

"As a maker of visions and a creator of heroes...Card is not to be outdone. " --"Library Journal"

"Mr. Card writes with energy and conviction." --"The New York Times Book Review"

"Card is a master storyteller." --"The Seattle Times"

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