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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780812550757
ISBN: 0812550757
Label: Tor Books
Manufacturer: Tor Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: August 15, 1994
Publisher: Tor Books
Sales Rank: 6973
Studio: Tor Books
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Product Description:
In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: The Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War.
Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but again the aliens' ways are strange and frightening...again, humans die. And it is only the Speaker for the Dead, who is also Ender Wiggin the Xenocide, who has the courage to confront the mystery...and the truth.
Amazon.com Review:
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 his characters in social, religious and cultural contexts. Like its predecessor, this book won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards.
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I thought this book was a very good book, It included a good deal of exciting science. It was very well written also the text flowed and was very easy to read. Most of all it was intellectually stimulating as it discussed many complex societal issues and ethical issues with out destroying the story. All in all it is a great work of fiction that is entertaining as well as sofisticated.
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It was an awesome book, Orson Scott Card... definately knows how to keep my attention!!!
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Don't get this if you liked Ender's game and are looking for a sequel. Speaker for the Dead has only one of the same characters - Ender - and he's much older. No one he knew is in this book, and there's little that relates to his past or future.
If that were not enough, I found the book to be subdued and tedious, and somehow off-center. It certainy isn't Card's best at all. The story doesn't have a lot of coherence, and none of the characters are very memorable or admirable at all. Alot ... Read More
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It has been thousands of years since Andrew "Ender" Wiggen fought against the alien buggers when he was just a young boy in battle school. Initiallly thought of as a hero, he is now remembered as a horrible person that wiped out an entire species. Humans populate a hundred worlds but still do not know of any other species with which they inhabit the world - except for on one colony, Luisitania. In this world, there is a species of creature known to humans as the piggies. Scientists on Luisitania ... Read More
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I've read a lot of Orson Scott Card's books, and have always found myself coming away from them a little frustrated. The ideas always seem to be interesting, but end up getting lost in mediocre storytelling. Card dwells on the same unique ideas so persistently, going back to the same well so often, that by the end of the book what I had originally found unique now just seems hackneyed. And now that I've found out Card is so outspoken politically with such (literally) fascist and discriminatory views, ... Read More
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