Original: Ender 's Shadow (/O1999/O) is a parallel science fiction novel by the American author Orson Scott Card , taking place at the same time as the novel Ender 's Game and depicting the same events from the point of view of Bean , a supporting character in the original novel .
Simplified: It is a parallel novel , which means it has a story that has some of the events in Enders Game from the point of view of another character named Bean .