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Shadow of the Giant

Orson Scott Card
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  1. SHADOW OF THE GIANT
  2. SHADOW OF THE GIANT
  3. Orson Scott Card
  4. CONTENTS
  5. SHADOW OF THE GIANT
  6. 1
  7. MANDATE OF HEAVEN
  8. 2
  9. MOTHER
  10. 3
  11. COUP
  12. 4
  13. BARGAIN
  14. 5
  15. SHIVA
  16. 6
  17. EVOLUTION
  18. 7
  19. AN OFFER
  20. 8
  21. ENDER
  22. 9
  23. PENSION
  24. 10
  25. GRIEF
  26. 11
  27. AFRICAN GOD
  28. 12
  29. ALLAHU AKBAR
  30. 13
  31. FOUND
  32. 14
  33. VIRLOMI’S VISITORS
  34. 15
  35. RATIFICATION
  36. 16
  37. JEESH
  38. 17
  39. BOATS
  40. 18
  41. YEREVAN
  42. 19
  43. ENEMIES
  44. 20
  45. PLANS
  46. 21
  47. PAPERS
  48. 22
  49. RUMORS OF WAR
  50. 23
  51. COLONIST
  52. 24
  53. SACRIFICE
  54. 25
  55. LETTERS
  56. 26
  57. SPEAK FOR ME
  58. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

SHADOW OF THE GIANT

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Maps in a Mirror, Volume 1: The Changed Man (paperback)

Maps in a Mirror, Volume 2: Flux (paperback)

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SHADOW OF THE GIANT

Orson Scott Card

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A TOM DOHERTY ASSOCIATES BOOK
NEW YORK

TO ED and KAY MCVEY,
who are saving the world
one kindness at a time

CONTENTS

1. MANDATE OF HEAVEN

2. MOTHER

3. COUP

4. BARGAIN

5. SHIVA

6. EVOLUTION

7. AN OFFER

8. ENDER

9. PENSION

10. GRIEF

11. AFRICAN GOD

12. ALLAHU AKBAR

13. FOUND

14. VIRLOMI’S VISITORS

15. RATIFICATION

16. JEESH

17. BOATS

18. YEREVAN

19. ENEMIES

20. PLANS

21. PAPERS

22. RUMORS OF WAR

23. COLONIST

24. SACRIFICE

25. LETTERS

26. SPEAK FOR ME

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

SHADOW OF THE GIANT

1

MANDATE OF HEAVEN

From: Graff%[email protected]
To: Soup%[email protected]
Re: Free Vacation Offer

Destination of your choice in the known universe. And…we pick you up!

Han Tzu waited until the armored car was completely out of sight before he ventured out into the bicycle-and-pedestrian-packed street. Crowds could make you invisible, but only if you were moving in the same direction, and that’s the thing Han Tzu had never really been able to do, not since he came home to China from Battle School.

He always seemed to be moving, not upstream, but crossways. As if he had a completely different map of the world from the one everyone around him was using.

And here he was again, dodging bikes and forward-pressing people on their ten thousand errands in order to get from the doorway of his apartment building to the door of the tiny restaurant across the street.

But it was not as hard as it would have been for most people. Han Tzu had mastered the art of using only his peripheral vision, so his eyes stared straight ahead. Without eye contact, the others on the street could not face him down, could not insist that he yield the right of way. They could only dodge him, as if he were a boulder in the stream.

He put his hand to the door and hesitated. He did not know why he had not been arrested and killed or sent for retraining already, but if he was photographed taking this meeting, then it would be easy to prove that he was a traitor.