by Orson Scott Card · B de Bolsillo · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788490708392
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In 'Shadow Puppets', the eighth installment of the acclaimed Ender Saga, a new world conflict is about to erupt between nations and the expanding powers of China and Islam. Ender and his team of child prodigies, turned into brilliant military strategists, have led humanity to victory in the war against the Insectoids. Now, with the external threat destroyed, the old problems of ambition, politics, and war resurface, turning Earth into a battlefield between humans. The children trained at Battle School have become the best strategists of humanity and lead their respective countries in this new global conflict.
Orson Scott Card is an American writer known best for his science fiction works. As of 2024, he is the only person to have won a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award in consecutive years, winning both awards for his novel Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel Speaker for the Dead (1986). A feature film adaptation of Ender's Game, which Card coproduced, was released in 2013. Card also wrote the Locus Fantasy Award-winning series The Tales of Alvin Maker (1987–2003). Card's fiction often features characters with exceptional gifts who make difficult choices with high stakes. Card has also written political, religious, and social commentary in his columns and other writing; he has provoked controversy and criticism for his public opposition to homosexuality.
