Pre-Order Shadows in Flight Now
According to Amazon, you can now pre-order Shadows in Flight on hardcover, Kindle Edition and audiobook! From the details on the Shadow’s in Flight page on Amazon we have a few new pieces of information, the most important being the release date of the ebook platforms: January 17, 2012.
Remember that the ebook editions of the book will have related multimedia not included in a physical copy of the book. Both the Kindle edition and the Nook edition have a set price of $9.99.
The hardcover of Shadows in Flight has a list price of $21.99. Amazon tells us that the novel is a short 240 pages. We’re not sure why Amazon has the release date of the hardcover listed as January 17, 2012. We’re thinking it’s a simple mistake because Orson Scott Card’s official websitestill lists the release date of Shadows in Flight as November 28, 2011.Update: We’ve now learned that January 17 is the official publication date, but books are often released early and so Card & his family believe Shadows in Flight will still be released in late November.
If you’re read the short summary of Shadows in Flight on Orson Scott Card’s website and the sneak peek of the first chapter then you have a pretty good idea of what the short novel is about. Still, if that’s not enough the product description on Amazon gives us a little bit clearer picture of what exactly will take place in the novel.
“At the end of Shadow of the Giant, Bean flees to the stars with three of his children–the three who share the engineered genes that gave him both hyper-intelligence and a short, cruel physical life. The time dilation granted by the speed of their travel gives Earth’s scientists generations to seek a cure, to no avail. In time, they are forgotten–a fading ansible signal speaking of events lost to Earth’s history. But the Delphikis are about to make a discovery that will let them save themselves, and perhaps all of humanity in days to come.
For there in space before them lies a derelict Formic colony ship. Aboard it, they will find both death and wonders–the life support that is failing on their own ship, room to grow, and labs in which to explore their own genetic anomaly and the mysterious disease that killed the ship’s colony.”
A colony ship killed by disease? With genetic labs and three individuals with Anton’s Key turned (assuming Bean dies) surely they’ll find a cure. In fact it says so right there in the product description: they are about to make a discovery that will let them save themselves. Still, it’s anybody’s guess how exactly a disease is putting all of humanity in danger.
Lastly, the audiobook in CD format has a list price of $29.99 and the release date is listed the same day as the ebooks: January 17, 2012. Curiously, the narrator of the audiobook is not list on the cover or in the details of Amazon or Barnes and Noble.Currently only a picture of the audiobook cover is listed. However, if the small pictures of the Shadow in Flight cover have been irritating you the way they been irritating us then you can view a hi-res of the audiobook cover here.
Have you pre-ordered Shadow in Flight yet? We can’t wait until November!