The Last Shadow

Written by Orson Scott Card

Narrated by Orson Scott Card, Emily Rankin, Gabrielle de Cuir and 6 more

Orson Scott Card's The Last Shadow is the long-awaited conclusion to both the original Ender series and the Ender's Shadow series, as the children of Ender and Bean solve the great problem of the Ender Universe—the deadly virus they call the descolada, which is incurable and will kill all of humanity if it is allowed to escape from Lusitania.

One planet.

Three sapient species living peacefully together.

And one deadly virus that could wipe out every world in the Starways Congress, killing billions.

Is the only answer another great Xenocide?

This program is read by Emily Rankin, Gabrielle de Cuir, John Rubinstein, Judy Young, Justine Eyre, Kirby Heyborne, Orson Scott Card, Scott Brick, and Stefan Rudnicki.

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books

• Language: English
• Publisher: Macmillan Audio
• Release date: Nov 16, 2021
• ISBN: 9781250818164

Orson Scott Card

Orson Scott Card is the author of numerous bestselling novels and the first writer to receive both the Hugo and Nebula awards two years in a row; first for Ender’s Game and then for the sequel, Speaker for the Dead. He lives with his wife in North Carolina.

Reviews for The Last Shadow

[Cameron St.Michael · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

A letdown in the series. It takes some of the least interesting characters from the series and gives a rather uninteresting finale to a story that had been rather deep at times. Instead, almost all the deeper relationship issues are tossed together into a story with little suspense. With such an extremely limited cast, it doesn't ever really build up more about the characters than a surface veneer, and tosses aside most of the character development done in the original books. The downward spiral of the Shadow series hits bottom with this rather unnecessary installment.

[Ruan · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

A good novel in its own right and certainly worth a read, but it does fall short of the very high expectations I had for the last entry in such an excellent series. It lets the enderverse kind of fizzle out rather than reaching a worthy climax.