Orson Scott Card
Summary:
A complex fate. A deadly path. Book two in the New York Times bestselling series Publishers Weekly calls an epic in the best sense. When Rigg and his friends crossed the Wall between the only world they knew and a world they could not imagine, he hoped he was leading them to safety. But the dangers in this new wallfold are more difficult to see. Rigg, Umbo, and Param know that they cannot trust the expendable, Vadesh, a machine shaped like a human, created to deceive but they are no longer certain that they can even trust one another. But they will have little choice.
Summary:
Ender's Shadow explores the stars in this all-new 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.