Yesterday, I read Ender’s Shadow, and it was well worth reading. What I’m reading now? Nothing until I see what looks good from this thread.
If you liked Ender’s Shadow, I think you will like the remaining books in the “Shadow” series. I read or listened on CD to all the books in the Ender’s series, both the regular and the shadow threads, and loved them all. Card is excellent at painting images and makes you think about things.
He speaks on some of the CDs, and explained how the book “Ender’s Game” wasn’t really the story he wanted to tell, it was just a good way to introduce the characters. If you read through the entire series, you’ll see where he really was getting to.
BTW, if you read the other shadow books, and like the way Card deals with the geo-political situation that evolves from winning the Formic war, I highly recommend another two-book series he wrote, called “Empire” and “Hidden Empire”, both of which deal with intrigue in our own government complete with some cool war toys and a global response to a plague.
I’m currently re-listening to the Ender series on vacation trips, because my kids haven’t heard them all yet. We just finished the existing Shadow series and have started down the Ender path with “Ender in Exile”. You have to look up a book chart to figure out exactly what order you want to read them in; I prefered categorical, but some do it chronologically. The author says either is fine. I’m looking forward to the new Shadow series book coming out next January.
Ender’s Shadow was really good. Somewhere I have a signed copy of that.
Re-read all of the Ender books earlier this year and added both the Shadow and Giant portions of the franchise.
Had a month’s worth of Ender immersion!