Shadow of the Giant

Card s latest installment in his Shadow subseries (Ender s Shadow, etc.), which parallels the overarching series that began with Ender s Game (1985), does a superlative job of dramatically portraying the maturing process of child into adult. The imminent death of Bean, a superhuman 20-something Battle School graduate who suffers from uncontrolled growth due to a genetic disorder, leaves little time for Peter the Hegemon, Ender s older brother, to set up a single world government and for Bean and