Ender's Game: Shadow of the Giant?

Question

Is there anyone else besides me, disappointed at the ending of `Shadow of the Giant?

Answer 1

It's been a while since I read it. But doesn't it end with Bean taking the genetically infected kids and going off in a space ship to have all the time he needed to find a cure while leaving Petra with the "normal" kids on earth to grow up without him and move on...I wouldn't call it a disappointment necessarily...just not the happy ending I would have hoped for. I do hear that there's going to be another book in the series, however, called Shadows in Flight.

Shadows in Flight is a yet-to-be-published science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card, which will link the Bean quartet back to the Ender novels.
Very little about the book is known at this time; Card has announced it, along with a prequel to Speaker for the Dead tentatively titled Ender in Exile: Ganges, but it is not known how much work he has done on either novel or even if he has started them. Card has stated explicitly that Shadows in Flight will wrap up some of the plot threads left dangling in Shadow of the Giant. However, in an interview with SciFi.com, he established that Flight would pick up where Children of the Mind (the final book in the Ender quartet) left off, as opposed to starting with the ending of Giant [1], leaving fans wondering just how Card plans to tie the two series together.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadows_in_Flight

Answer 2

I would not be in that category, notwithstanding that fact that the "Shadows in Flight" sequel is being planned. I thought it to be on par with "Children of the Mind" in that some stories end and some continue, much as life does. I suppose that Bean's story didn't quite have the closure that one would have expected, but then the Shadow books evolved to be about Peter and Petra as well, just as Children of the Mind was more than just Ender's story.

However, I will be glad that another book in the series is coming out. Both Shadow of the Giant and Children of the Mind left open some loose ends and tying them together should be interesting.