Millions are infected blazes erupt everywhere. Called Dragonscale, it’s a highly contagious, deadly spore that marks its hosts with beautiful black and gold marks across their bodies-before causing them to burst into flames. 10 hours, 49 minutes.Ī terrifying new plague spreads like wildfire across the country, striking cities one by one: Boston, Detroit, Seattle. Narrated by the impressive Adjoah Andoh and Ben Onwukwe. “Chaotic, enthralling, and moving fluidly from character voices to oral-style narration to gut-punchingly beautiful prose.” All that stands between seventeen million anarchic residents and death is an alien ambassador, a biologist, a rapper, a soldier, and a myth that may be the size of a giant spider, or a god revealed. Meanwhile, Earth’s political superpowers are considering a preemptive nuclear launch to eradicate the intruders. Soon the military, religious leaders, thieves, and crackpots are trying to control the message on YouTube and on the streets. It’s up to a famous rapper, a biologist, and a rogue soldier to handle humanity’s first contact with an alien ambassador-and prevent mass extinction-in this novel that blends magical realism with high-stakes action.Īfter word gets out on the Internet that aliens have landed in the waters outside of the world’s fifth most populous city, chaos ensues. Bean was sent into orbit, to the Battle School. 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’s past was a battle just to survive. In Ender’s Shadow, Card tells the story of another of those precocious generals, the one they called Bean, the one who became Ender’s right hand, and part of his team, in the final battle against the Buggers. They have time to train these future commanders from childhood, forging them into an irresistible force in the high orbital facility called the Battle School.Īndrew “Ender” Wiggin was not the only child in the Battle School he was just the best of the best. The long distances of interstellar space have given hope to the defenders of Earth. 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. In his previous book Ender’s Game, the human race is at war with the “Buggers,” an insect-like alien race.

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