Orson Scott Card’s undisputed classic Ender’s Game opens on the alternately violent and tender sibling interactions between Valentine, Peter, and Andrew “Ender” Wiggin, three children who change the course of humanity’s history with their brilliance. Shadows In Flight, Card’s fifth novel in the parallel Shadow Saga, following Ender’s protégé Bean, begins with another trio of wildly gifted children, two brothers and a sister, discussing patricide. The opening echoes Ender’s Game, but it clumsily repeats the same exposition, another example of the diminishing returns Card’s unnecessary series extensions have earned.
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