SHADOW OF THE GIANT

Book ID/图书代码： 01360005B03745

English Summary/英文概要： Bean’s past was a battle just to survive. He first appeared on the streets of Rotterdam, a tiny child with a mind leagues beyond anyone else. He knew he could not survive through strength; he used his tactical genius to gain acceptance into a children’s gang, and then to help make that gang a template for success for all the others. He civilized them, and lived to grow older. Then he was discovered by the recruiters for the Battle School.

For Earth was at war -- a terrible war with an inscrutable alien enemy. A war that humanity was near to losing. But the long distances of interstellar space has given hope to the defenders of Earth -- they had time to train military geniuses up from childhood, forging them into an irresistible force in the high-orbital facility called the Battle School. That story is told in two books, the beloved classic Ender’s Game, and its parallel, Ender’s Shadow.

Bean was the smallest student at the Battle School, but he became Ender Wiggins’ right hand. Since then he has grown to be a power on Earth. He served the Hegemon as strategist and general in the terrible wars that followed Ender’s defeat of the alien empire attacking Earth. Now he and his wife Petra yearn for a safe place to build a family -- something he has never known -- but there is nowhere on Earth that does not harbor his enemies -- old enemies from the days in Ender’s Jeesh, new enemies from the wars on Earth. To find security, Bean and Petra must once again follow in Ender’s footsteps. They must leave Earth behind, in the control of the Hegemon, and look to the stars.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 比恩的过去是为了生存而战。他第一次出现在鹿特丹的大街上，是一个头脑超群的小孩子。他知道他不能靠蛮力生存；他利用自己的战术天赋进入了一个儿童团伙，并帮助这个团伙成为其他所有人成功的模板。他使他们开化，并活到更老。然后他被战斗学校的招聘人员发现了。

因为地球正处于战争之中——一场与神秘莫测的外星敌人的可怕战争。一场人类濒临失败的战争。但星际空间的遥远距离给了地球卫士们希望——他们从小就有时间培养军事天才，在高轨道设施“战斗学校”中他们被锻造成一支不可抗拒的力量。这个故事被写在两本书中，一本是深受喜爱的经典《安德的游戏》，另一本是与之平行的《安德的影子》。

比恩是战斗学校里个子最小的学生，但他成了安德•威金斯的左膀右臂。从那时起，他已成长为地球上的一股力量。在安德击败入侵地球的外星帝国后的可怕战争中，他作为战略家和将军为霸主服务。现在，他和他的妻子佩特拉渴望到一个安全的地方来建立一个家庭——这是他从未想过的事情——但地球上没有任何地方不庇护他的敌人——从安德的《军团》开始的旧敌人，到地球战争中产生的新敌人。为了找到安全感，比恩和佩特拉必须再次追随安德的脚步。他们必须离开地球，在霸主的控制下，仰望星空。（WYL）

Awards/获奖情况：“奥森•斯科特•卡德的《安德》系列小说集集动作、军事和政治策略、精心设计的战争游戏和心理学于一体，引人入胜。”——今日美国

“这部优秀的《安德的影子》续篇讲述了小说主人公比恩（现在是个年轻人)与卡德招牌式的斗争:极其真实的道德和伦理困境……书中年轻主人公的复杂性和严肃的处理方式将吸引许多老练的霸权读者，而卡德完美的散文、快速的节奏和政治阴谋将吸引间谍小说、惊悚小说和科幻小说的成年粉丝。”——《出版人周刊》(星评)

“一个不可否认的重量级人物……这本书结合了卡德古怪的风格与他艰难的道德困境和尖锐的画像。”——《纽约每日新闻》关于安德的游戏

“卡德采用了科幻小说中超人和星际大战的经典概念，并以高超的人物塑造、节奏和语言，将它们融合成一个无缝的故事，展现出令人信服的力量。”——安德游戏的书单

“你不会两次踏入同一条河，但卡德却优雅地两次浸入同一个墨水瓶——一次是为了安德的游戏，另一次是为了他独立的‘平行小说。像往常一样，每个人都会被卡德的孩子们的力量所震撼，他们总是或多或少的不像人类，完美却又挣扎，悲剧却又充满希望，奇妙而又奇怪。”——《出版人周刊》对安德的评论

"The novels of Orson Scott Card’s Ender series are an intriguing combination of action, military and political strategy, elaborate war games and psychology."---USA Today

"This fine follow-up to Ender’s Shadow features that novel’s hero, Bean (now a young man), wrestling with Card’s trademark: superbly real moral and ethical dilemmas....The complexity and serious treatment of the book’s young protagonists will attract many sophisticated YA readers, while Card’s impeccable prose, fast pacing and political intrigue will appeal to adult fans of spy novels, thrillers, and science fiction."---Publishers Weekly (starred review) on Shadow of the Hegemon

"An undeniable heavyweight. . . . This book combines Card’s quirky style with his hard ethical dilemmas and sharply drawn portraits."---New York Daily News on Ender’s Game

"Card has taken the venerable SF concepts of a superman and an interstellar war against aliens, and, with superb characterization, pacing, and language, combined them into a seamless story of compelling power."---Booklist on Ender’s Game

"You can’t step into the same river twice, but Card has gracefully dipped twice into the same inkwell--once for Ender’s Game, and again for his stand-alone ’parallel novel’. As always, everyone will be struck by the power of Card’s children, always more and less than human, perfect yet struggling, tragic yet hopeful, wondrous and strange."---Publishers Weekly (starred review) on Ender’s Shadow

About the Author/作者介绍： 奥森•斯科特•卡德1951年出生于华盛顿州里奇兰，在加利福尼亚、亚利桑那和犹他州长大。他在巴西做了两年摩门教徒的无薪传教士，并在杨百翰大学(1975年)和犹他大学(1981年)获得学位。作为众多书籍的作者，卡德是首位连续两年同时获得雨果奖和星云奖最佳小说奖的作家，他先是凭借《安德的游戏》获奖，接着又凭借《死者的演讲者》续集获奖。他与妻子和孩子住在北卡罗来纳州。

Born in Richland, Washington in 1951, Orson Scott Card grew up in California, Arizona, and Utah. He lived in Brazil for two years as an unpaid missionary for the Mormon Church and received degrees from Brigham Young University (1975) and the University of Utah (1981). The author of numerous books, Card was the first writer to receive both the Hugo and Nebula awards for best novel two years in a row, first for Ender’s Game and then for the sequel Speaker for the Dead. He lives with his wife and children in North Carolina.
奧森斯科特卡1951年出生於華盛頓里奇蘭，在加利福尼亞州，亞利桑那州長大。他以一個無薪的傳教士身分在巴西摩門教會住了兩年，並在楊百翰大學獲得學士學位。作者十分多產，是第一個獲得雨果和連續兩年星雲獎最佳小說作家。

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