"The Last Shadow (The Ender Saga, 6)" by Orson Scott Card

"The Last Shadow (The Ender Saga, 6)" by Orson Scott Card
    https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0765344149/

Book number six of a six book science fiction series, The Ender Saga, 
also book number six of a six book science fiction series, The Ender's 
Shadow series.  I read the well printed and well bound MMPB published by 
Tor in 2022.  There are actually some twenty books in the Enderverse 
now.  I doubt that there will be any more books in either series but, 
one never knows.

It has been 3,000 years since the events in Ender's Game occurred. 
Ender and his sister Valentine spent most of that time traveling at near 
speed of light between several of the one hundred planets settled by the 
humans after the Formic war, ending up on the planet Lusitania.  Ender 
settled the last Formic Hive Queen there so there are three species 
living peacefully on the planet: Pequeninos who are native to the 
planet, Humans, and the Formic Hive Queen who has built a hive with many 
workers.

Bean's children and grandchildren are still traveling at near the speed 
of light in an old space ship.  Bean, the giant, passed away quite a 
while back.  His children and grandchildren have fixed the gene in 
themselves that made them geniuses but caused them to continue growing 
all their lives.

The planet Lusitania has a problem.  There is a virus there, the deadly 
Descolada virus.  The other 99 planets were alarmed and then the 
Starways Congress sent a fleet to destroy the planet to destroy the 
virus.  Jane, the AI on the Ansible, the instantaneous communication 
network between the hundred planets, managed to deter the fleet when the 
geneticists found a solution to the virus.  But where did the virus come 
from ?

The author has a website at:
    http://www.hatrack.com/

My rating:  4.4 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating:  4.2 out of 5 stars (1,363 reviews)

Lynn