"'But you yourself were the author of the proposition that only a child-'
'Sir, none of that applies to Bean.'
'Because?'
'Because he's not human.' "
Ender's Shadow is about a world when aliens have found Earth and want to destroy the human race.
In order to counter the aliens, known as "buggers", the entire world has gone into a state of truce called the Warsaw Pact.
In order to counter the aliens, known as "buggers", the entire world has gone into a state of truce called the Warsaw Pact.