TOR science fiction

In the hope that science will find a cure for the genetic mutation that has made him and his three children geniuses while condemning them to gigantism and short lives, Julian "Bean" Delphiki, aka the Giant, takes them into space. Travelling at light speed, however, allows them to be forgotten on Earth, where hundreds of years have passed, and when their ship begins to fail and Bean nears death, the siblings, now six years old, must save themselves.

Collects four novels from Orson Scott Card's "Enders' Shadow" series, and includes "Shadow Puppets," "Shadow of the Hegemon," "Ender's Shadow," and "Shadow of the Giant," which follow Bean, a child general from the Battle School, whose mental abilities far outweigh his small stature.

Ender Wiggin's adopted world of Lusitania, with its three sentient species and his oldest friend Jane, a computer intelligence, are threatened by a fleet of ships sent by the Starways Congress, but with the help of two new beings created by Ender's mind, the planet may still be saved.

Young Ender Wiggin may prove to be the military genius Earth needs to fight a desperate battle against a deadly alien race that will determine the future of the human race.