Shadows in Flight was released on January 17th, 2012 and is the 5th installment of the Shadow series revolving around Julian (Bean) Delphinki. The novel is considerably shorter than most of the other Shadow series with the hardcover published by Tor being only 240 pages long. A sample first chapter was published on Card's digital magazine via his Hatrack website on November 28th, 2011.

The novel focuses on Bean and his three children Ender, Carlotta, and Cincinnatus who are traveling through space searching for a cure to their giganticism but stumble upon an abandoned Formic ship hovering above a habitable planet.

Unlike the previously titled Shadows in Flight book that was planned, Bean will not die in the first chapter. Additionally, it will not wrap up the Speaker and Shadow series. Rather, a separate book entitled Shadows Alive will serve as the wrap up novel to be released sometime after Shadows in Flight.

Contents 1 Story Summary 2 Praise 3 Story Details 4 Awards 5 Unanswered Questions

Story Summary Edit

The title, Shadows in Flight seems be reference Bean and his children who have Anton's Key turned on. In Shadow of the Giant they fly to relativistic speeds in hopes of emerging alive years later to be cured of their genetic modification. The book centers on Bean and his children as they find an ancient Formic Ark near an Earth-like planet.

Praise Edit

Story DetailsEdit

http://www.hatrack.com/shadows-in-flight.jpg

http://www.amazon.com/Shadows-Flight-Ender-Orson-Scott/dp/0765332000

AwardsEdit

Unanswered QuestionsEdit

• What do Miro, Jane, Peter Wiggin, and Wang-mu do afterwards?
• Do the humans ever decode the Descolada language?
• What happens to the rest of Ender's Jeesh?
• What happens to Volescu? And his genetic research?