![]() ![]() The idea is that when somebody dies, somebody, a speaker for the dead, does what he (or she) can to find the real truth about this person and then tell it. I love the way Card uses the idea of a speaker for the dead in this story, but I’m severely doubt that the idea of a speaking about the dead, the way Card envisions it, would work in the real world and with everyday people. Ender has been travelling from world to world, speaking for the dead, looking for a new home for the Hive Queen and a place that he himself can call home. “Speaker for the Dead” starts of a lot later, the way most people count about three thousand years has passed, but Ender has only aged about twenty-five years due to extensive travelling at close to light speeds. He had found the Hive Queen egg and was thinking about finding it a home. When we left Ender at the end of Ender’s Game, he was working on establishing a human colony on an old bugger world. There is, of course and as always, no spoilers for the book under review. On that note I’ll have to warn you that this review contains spoilers for Enders Game and that you should stop reading this review and go read Enders Game instead if you haven’t already. This book could probably be read on it’s own, but it contains numerous spoilers for Enders Game and I can’t think of any good reasons why you wouldn’t want to read that one. Speaker for the Dead is the second volume in the Ender Saga, by Orson Scott Card and has won the Hugo, Locus and Nebula awards. ![]()
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