Speaker for the Dead (1986) (edit title/settings)

• Rated 1 stars

“Speaker for the Dead was not my cup of tea. I enjoyed the first book in the Ender series, but this book was nothing like it. I almost don’t believe that the two could have been written by the same author. Speaker for the dead was filled on future religious sects, anthropological mumbo jumbo, and worst of all, too many characters with too bizarre of names to remember :-( I wanted to enjoy this book, I really did, but Orson Scott turned a good plot into a bad novel.”

• Rated 5 stars

“Possibly the best first contact treatment I've ever read.”

• Rated 4 stars

“Not as good as Ender's Game, but still worth the read. ”

• Rated 5 stars

“a dark tale of a family so broken that it takes an outsider to put the pieces back together. ”

• Rated 4 stars

“An excellent sci-fi book, the sequel to Ender's Game but can be read by itself. A lot of morality is considered here.”

• Rated 0 stars

“I think it looks OK.”

• Rated 4 stars

“This is the original sequel to Ender's Game -- although the novel version of that was designed as a sort of prequel to this book. The buggers play a minor role, and another sentient alien culture a more important one, but it is primarily about a human family and the reasons for its problems. II think this is Card's best novel, at least of the ones I have read; it deals with ethical dilemmas in a serious way, and the main character is developed as someone who is tolerant and respectful of different beliefs and tries to understand others rather than judging them. The book focuses on the difficulties of deciding what is right, especially across cultures.

I just find it very hard after reading this novel to believe that this is written by the same Orson Scott Card whose own writings in his own persona, as opposed to fiction, claim to be able to decide for everyone what is right and wrong without any difficulty, and who a year ago spoke at the ALA Convention turning his "book talk" into a long rant against gays.”

• Rated 5 stars

“Just when I thought nothing could match ¨Ender´s game¨, I found myself reading this book.... SUPERB!!”

• Rated 5 stars

“Best book in the series.”

• Rated 3 stars

“I read the whole series of books. ”