Shadows Alive is a planned science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card

Orson Scott Card

Orson Scott Card is an American author, critic, public speaker, essayist, columnist, and political activist. He writes in several genres, but is primarily known for his science fiction. His novel Ender's Game and its sequel Speaker for the Dead both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the...

 in the Ender's Game series

Ender's Game series

The Ender's Game series is a series of science fiction books by Orson Scott Card. The series started with the novelette "Ender's Game", which was later expanded into the novel Ender's Game. It currently consists of eleven novels and ten short stories...

. It will link the Ender's Shadow books back to the Ender Saga.

Card has said that Shadows Alive will wrap up some of the plot threads left dangling in Shadow of the Giant

Shadow of the Giant

Shadow of the Giant is the fourth novel in Orson Scott Card's Ender's Shadow series.-Plot summary:A belief is spreading in conquered China that the government has lost the Mandate of Heaven. Han Tzu meets up with Mazer Rackham, who passes him a blow dart pen, calling it the "Mandate of Heaven"...

(the fourth Shadow book). The book will pick up from where Children of the Mind

Children of the Mind

Children of the Mind is the fourth book of Orson Scott Card's popular Ender's Game series of science fiction novels that focus on the character Ender Wiggin...

(the final book in the Ender quintet) left off. This novel was originally to be part of Shadows in Flight, but has since separated to Shadows Alive.

See also

• Ender in Exile
• List of characters in the Ender's Game series
• Concepts in the Ender's Game series
• List of works by Orson Scott Card