General Information
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 Title:                  Shadows In Flight
 Author:                 Orson Scott Card
 Copyright:              2011
 Audiobook Copyright:    2011
 Genre:                  Audiobook - Sci Fi
 Series Name:            The Shadow saga
 Position in Series:     5
 Abridged:               No

Original Media Information
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 ISBN:                   0-7653-3200-0
 Source:                 Friend

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Book Description
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Shadows in Flight is a 2012 science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card, and the 
latest installment in the 
Ender's Game series. This story should not be confused with Shadows Alive, the 
subsequent novel that brings Bean's 

children together with Peter and Valentine from Children of the Mind.[1] It is 
about Bean and his children discovering an ancient Formic "ark" during their 
journey in space.[2] A sample chapter was released on November 28, 2011.[3] The 

hardcover version was released on January 17, 2012.[4]

Plot

In 2210, the starship Herodotus left Earth. Onboard were Julian "Bean" Delphiki 

and his three infant children – Ender, Carlotta, and Cincinnatus – all of whom 
have 
Anton's Key turned. This genetic alteration, which Bean passed to his children, 
grants them all extremely high intelligence, but causes their bodies to grow 
uncontrollably, which is likely to kill them by the age of 20. Subjectively, they 
have been flying near light-speed for five years, but relativistic effects mean 
that 421 years have passed on Earth – the year is now 2631. When the family left, 
scientists were actively trying to find a cure for their giantism which would not 
diminish their intelligence. Several generations have passed, and they have been 
forgotten, their mother and "normal" siblings having died centuries ago. The children 
have only been alive for six subjective years. Bean's 

life has been extended by the low gravity onboard the Herodotus, which allows 
his heart to keep beating despite his increasingly gigantic size. At 4.5 metres 

tall, Bean must remain in a lying position in the cargo bay so as not to over-
exert himself. He controls and watches everything on the ship through his holo-
top terminal, often prompting the children to have secret meetings they believe 

the Giant cannot hear. Bean and Ender continue to study their genetic condition 

in the hope of finding a cure.

In one of these meetings, the militarily-minded Cincinnatus (nicknamed 
"Sergeant") tries to enlist the aid of his siblings in killing their father, 
saying he is a drain on resources. The sensitive Carlotta (whose speciality is 
engineering) is unwilling to take a stance, but Ender (an expert biologist) 
punches Sergeant and breaks his nose for proposing such an idea, thus ending 
his 
brother's domination over the family. Ender and Carlotta tell Bean about 
Sergeant's 
plans, and Bean puts all three children in their place, reminding them they are 

each as intelligent as the other. Sergeant has been imagining threats to their 
security where there are none, because he believes the Giant means to pass his 
soldier role onto him. So he studies the Formic war vids and learning his 
father's strategy while training himself with weaponry. Ender takes on the bulk 
of the genetic studies by monitoring the advances made by the scientists on Earth. 
Carlotta, who feels slightly left behind with the genetic studies serves the family 
by taking care of every aspect of the spacecraft, since Bean himself is stuck in 
the cargo hold.

After despairing at the condition of their lives, and in the light of the discovery 
that their condition cannot be cured, Carlotta notices an unknown spacecraft in 
geosync orbit around an uncharted planet in the goldilocks zone. Bean and his 
children deliberate courses of action. If they alter their course, they must slow 
down to turn, possibly killing Bean with the increased gravity. However, they cannot 
anticipate who or what is in the spacecraft; it may attack them, or they may be 
detrimental to the survival and progression of the human race. This hypothesis is 
solidified when Sergeant deduces that the ship is a Formic Ark, a colony ship that 
has been in flight for centuries.

Bean sends Sergeant alone to investigate the ship, and he escapes an attack by 
small Formic-like animals they call "rabs". After this initial encounter, Bean 
reveals his full plan to his children. They must find out who is piloting this ship 
and attempting to terraform the planet it orbits. It was Bean's 

intention all along to have his children live on this planet and found their 
new species in safety as soon as he picked it up on radar as lying within the 
goldilocks zone. Armed with 
Sergeant's weapons and a sedative fog spray Ender devised, Sergeant commands defenses 
as Carlotta leads their group to the helm with Bean in contact the whole time. The 
spray proves effective, and they soon find the Hive Queen's 

chamber to find her, and many workers, dead. Eventually they find living male 
Formics in one of the piloting helms.

In an attempt to communicate, Ender surrenders himself by drifting close to 
them in zero gravity. The male drones come close and communicate with Ender via 

mental images. The group learns that the Ark was sent long before Ender Wiggin, 

whom 
Bean's son is named for, wiped out the buggers. After the Queen on their ship died, 
the workers died without her link, yet the males lived and tried to survive and keep 
the ship running despite losing numbers to the feral rabs. The group strikes a deal 
that if the children can wipe out the rabs, they can stay with the Formics and help 
cultivate the planet. When Bean learns from the male drones that Ender Wiggin is 
carrying a queen's 

cocoon looking for a home, and that Formic workers do have minds of their own 
contrary to popular belief, he demands to speak with the Formics in order to 
warn Ender, despite risking his life in the journey.

Accepting that his children have achieved beyond his wildest expectations, Bean 

risks his life by docking with the 
ark's cargo hold to float down into the ecotat. Laying in the grass and basking in 
the artificial sunlight, Bean communes for three days with the formic males. Though 
the Formics think it is silly to believe the Queen would hide anything from them, 
Bean learns that workers could rebel against a Queen and regain their free will. 
After sleeping, his children wake him informing him that by studying how the Hive 
Queen suppresses her workers, Ender devised and administered a virus that will develop 
an organelle to shut off their growth genome, leaving their intelligence intact.

With renewed hope for the future, Bean looks at the beauty around him and remember 
all those whom he loved and who loved him in his life. With his children's 

help, he stands at four and a half meters for the first time in years, and 
walks with belabored breathing in the sunlight. Happy for his children and for 
his own short but brilliant life, Bean lies down and dies in peace.


