Speaker for the Dead (Ender, Book 2)
 

Speaker for the Dead (Ender, Book 2) (Ender Quartet)

by Orson Scott Card

Ender Wiggin, the hero and scapegoat of mass alien destruction in Ender's Game, receives a chance at redemption in this novel. Ender, who proclaimed as a mistake his success in wiping out an alien race, wins the opportunity to cope better with a second race, discovered by Portuguese colonists on the planet Lusitania. Orson Scott Card infuses this long, ambitious tale with intellect by casting... (read more)

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Caitlin C
  • Rated 4 stars

I got caught up in this book! Read Ender's Game (first book in series) two summers ago and picked this one up at Goodwill. It was great- and I don't normally like science fiction. Read this one in a few days, can't wait to read the rest in the series!

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Roxann A
  • Rated 2 stars

This book is more philosophy and less action than Ender's Game, and a little difficult to get into.

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  • Marcus H

    marcus h said:

    This brilliant sequel to Ender's game is Sci-Fi at a whole different level.

    posted Sunday, June 1 2008
  • Alex B

    alex b said:

    i thought it started off slow, but during the last couple hundred pages of the book i caught myself shutting off the rest of the world. i found it one of those books where it's hard to view certain things the same way afterwards

    posted Thursday, January 17 2008
  • TheBudman

    thebudman said:

    I've read this book before and I really want to read it again. I would write a review for it but it was so long ago i don't remember that much. I'll have to borrow it from my friend after I finish the Hyperion series...or i'll just pick it up myself.

    posted Monday, January 7 2008
  • Rev. Martin N

    rev. martin n said:

    Yet, another book in the Ender saga, Ender has wandered the universe, his aging slowed due to interstellar travel. All believe that he is dead and remember him as a genocidal monster, but he carries the key to saving the race that he destroyed. He is also the creator of an order of priests or religion called "The Speakers for the Dead," whose primary task is to recreate the lives of those who have died and deliver an eulogy that expresses who the loved one was. As a minister who officiates at funerals, it has been this image that I have tried to use in my real life work. Card is a Mormon theologian and his science fiction frequently reflects a sympathy and understanding of the struggles of people of faith. It is one of the reasons that I like him.

    posted Wednesday, October 17 2007
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