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Shadow of the Hegemon

By: Orson Scott Card
Narrated by: David Birney, Scott Brick, Gabrielle de Cuir
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Ender's Game told the story of the boy "Ender" Wiggin and his hard-won victory over an alien race that would have destroyed the Earth and all of humanity. But Ender was not the only child in the Battle School. He was just the best of the best. In Ender's Shadow, Orson Scott Card told the story of another of those precocious generals, the one they called Bean - the one who became Ender's right hand, his strategist, and his friend.

And now Card continues Bean's story, and finally tells a tale long awaited by millions of fans. At last we learn what happened on Earth after the destruction of the Hive Queen's worlds, after humanity no longer had a single enemy to unify the warring nations. This is the story of how Bean turned away from his first friend, Ender, and became the tactical genius who won the Earth for Ender's brother, Peter, who became the Hegemon.

Please note: This 2001 recording represents the technology of the time when it was produced. This is currently the best available source audio from the publisher.

©2000 Orson Scott Card Adventure Fantasy Science Fiction Space Opera
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Editing of the audio was disappointing. The pronunciation of hegemon has been cut and replaced very obviously as the replacement recordings have different tone/background. Disappointing and distracting for what is a great plot.

Great story, shame about the bad audio editing

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An interesting political follow-up to the main events in Ender's game. A good story with poor production/editing.
The way they frequently patch in a non-matching chunk of audio - assumedly to fix the pronunciation of "hegemon" is very jarring. The overall character voicing is excellent apart from this.

Good book marred by poor editing

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I love all the characterz so much wow. some parts of the story were hard to understand but still good

good

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Audio quality wasn’t the best at times. Great story, characters and performance. Can’t wait for the next one

Great story. Poor audio quality

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What disappointed you about Shadow of the Hegemon?

It is just a poor production overall

What did you like best about this story?

the storyline was very good

What didn’t you like about the narrators’s performance?

It was very poorly edited and they pronunciations were not consistent between the narrators.

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Shadow of the Hegemon?

none, but i would have fixed a lot of the recording

Any additional comments?

Performance was not very good

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