Shadows in Flight
Ender’s Game author, Orson Scott Card announced via his site a brand new addition to the Ender Saga called Shadows in Flight. Card previously said that Shadows in Flight would be the final Ender novel, tying together the Speaker and Shadow Series. However, this is not the book fans of the series have long anticipated. Fans should not be disappointed, Card insists ” This is one of the strongest, most emotional, most science-fictional novels I’ve ever written.”
“Shadows in Flight be a sequel to Shadow of the Giant in the Shadow Series. The novel will follow Bean and three of his children into space, where they search for a cure for the giantism that is the price of their genetic enhancement. Near an Earthlike planet, they run into a colony ship from another species, which has a lot of surprises that will change the course of their lives.”
Shadows in Flight will be a short novel with about 54,000 words in ten long chapters. An early release of the first chapter will be made available exclusively to Intergalactic Medicine Show subscribers as part of Issue 24 (August 2011) along with concept art from the multimedia book. Shadows in Flight will hit bookshelves just after Thanksgiving on November 24, 2011. The novel will appear in a paper version as well and on Kindle and Nook ebook platforms. The multimedia book does not yet have a release date, but it will be available only on ebook platforms.
Orson Scott Card adds, “Now that I’ve written it [Shadows in Flight], I don’t know how I imagined I was ever going to write that final book without having written this one first!” Card also announced that Shadows Alive will be the new title of the final book which will wrap up both the Speaker and Shadow series. It does not have a release date.