ender and bean...

i am currently finishing this book that i find very cool, "Ender's Shadow" by Orson Scott Card.

it's a book about a young and smart (no, rather a genius) four year old named "Bean" who finds himself in Battle School--a space station which houses dozens of other kids training to become soldiers to fight a war with the "buggers". Well, that's the short of it anyway.

the book is actually the 2nd i've read from this author, the first being "Ender's Game" which was just as good. The two books are two different stories actually running on the same trend... a "parallax" according to the author.

on "Ender's Game" i met Ender Wiggin, another kid who was selected to go to Battle School, surviving and proving himself to be a good soldier, and eventually becoming head of the International Fleet...all at the age of---, well, very young. the young kid Bean, himself is under his own command. the book i'm reading now tells of Bean and what makes him special-- a boy genius trying to understand the intricacies of the battle school, while, well, i havent gotten that far yet. but i do know bean is some sort of genetically altered child that makes him a genius.

so, why talk about it? well, i just like the books so much; well, i'll just expound on this after i finish the book... promise ;)