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Shadow of the Hegemon

Name: Shadow of the Hegemon
Author: Orson Scott Card

Shadow of the Hegemon is a science fiction novel by American writer Orson Scott Card, the second novel in the Ender's Shadow series . It is also the sixth novel in the Ender's Game series. It is told mostly from the point of view of Bean, a largely peripheral character in the original novel Ender's Game but the central protagonist of the parallel narrative Ender's Shadow. Shadow of the Hegemon was nominated for a Locus Award in 2002.

“I'll have that someday, thought Peter. Someone who'll kiss me good-bye at the door. Or maybe just someone to put a blindfold over my head before they shoot me. Depending on how things turn out.”

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“Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.”

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“He would always speak the language of the heart with an awkward foreign accent.”

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“It is in the turmoil of chaos that we discover what, if anything, we are.”

Orson Scott Card book Shadow of the Hegemon

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