Ender remains young, traveling the stars at the speed of relativity, but a hundred years or more might pass on Earth while he experiences a month-long voyage. In three thousand years, Ender's books The Hive Queen and The Hegemon, written under a pseudonym, have become holy writ, while the name of Ender itself has become anathema: he is the Xenocide, the one who killed an entire race of thinking, feeling beings, killed the only other sapient race humankind had found in all the galaxy.
The only ones, that is, until the planet called Lusitania was discovered and colonized. The discovery was seen as a gift to humanity, a chance to redeem the destruction of the Buggers. This time, the Starways Congress vowed, there would be no tragic misunderstanding leading to war. But once again men die, killed by the aliens in a rite no one understands. Ender, now known only as the Speaker for the Dead, comes to Lusitania to speak for those who have died and discovers that in order to tell the truth about them, he must unravel the secrets of Lusitania.
I did like this book. It was unusual and far-fetched, but appealing. As much as I enjoyed Ender's Game, I loved this book more. I liked the action of Ender's Game, but it was the inner conflicts and thoughts of his character that I really enjoyed. Card made me really care about Ender and what happened to him. It is just this kind of intimacy that I think is the core of this book. It has such emotional intensity with a transcendant spirituality,that made me want to "inhale" this book.
I found myself just sitting in my car long after I had reached my destination just to complete another chapter. This book grabbed me and flung me on the roller coaster of its message, and I didn't want to ever get off. I picked this book because I had very much enjoyed Ender's Game and "Speaker" is the continuation of the story. However, it is also completely different in speed and style. While "Ender's Game" is mostly science fiction of the technical kind spaceships, battles, etc.
The passages in Portuguese, on the Catholic teachings, and others are tedious and boring. You may end up liking "Speaker", but it won't be for the same reasons you may like "Ender's Game". Be forewarned. Any additional comments? There is a lot of controversy around Card but he still writes really interesting books that require the reader to think about the implications of each action and reaction.
It is a wonderful masterpiece and deserves the reader to think critically about the ideas of Card. I enjoyed this book, but I enjoyed it because I did not expect Ender's Game proper. There was a lot about Ender's Game I enjoyed, but I can sub-categorize all my favorite parts into two important distinctions. Military strategy and group leadership versus interpersonal development and politics.
If you really only enjoyed the military portions of Ender's Game, then you may consider leaving Speaker of the Dead out. The way he writes the characters in Speaker for the Dead I have found to be a reliable measure for his other books in the Enderverse. Reading about waging a war is awesome because of the absolution both sides of a war feel, a solidarity under one banner, so to speak. At the end of war, we have fractured absolution and limited solidarity -- complex topics to say the least.
Speaker for the dead is about this post-war universe. The threads of religion and science woven throughout the personalities is beautifully done in a way that should be neutral enough to spawn debate, but with the author's beliefs only somewhat veiled. Reading a book like this often makes me feel we are more predictable in groups than we are when left to our private choices.
This book gives weight to the phrase "where there is a will, there is a way. Is there anything you would change about this book? Use consistent narration. Using several different people that change the emotional delivery and even the gender of the voice is distracting and annoying. Plus, the woman sounds like she should be reading smut, not sci-fi. Who would you have cast as narrator instead of David Birney and Stefan Rudnicki? These weren't the only narrators. I would have stuck with them.
I felt as though this was a book I should have read years ago and regretted that I did not. Like many others who have reviewed this book, I also enjoyed Enders Game but took up Speaker for the Dead with no preconceived ideas. The first part of this novel is rightly spent setting up the rest and, since the story that follows is based on the characters experiences and the emotions that arise because of them, they form the important foundation for the rest of the novel.
In other words it contextualises it. If you want another Enders Game, then it is not the same. It is richer, deeper and slower to build. It requires a reader with empathy, a little patience and an open mind.
I will not nitpick the science but it was written a while ago and our collective understanding and expectations have changed in the interim. I do believe, however, that eventually technological development will plateau as we discover all the technology that will serve us and it will remain somewhat similar until something changes to cause the next great cycle of advancement.
It touched me and it made me think which is all I can ask of any book. Some may not like it The book becomes a philosophical debate about the inward struggles that we face when confronting things we cannot understand. Would I listen to it again? Probably not Will I listen to the next book in the series? Already have. This story takes ender and follows him into his adult life , it shows how the battle school and descisions he made while there affected his adult life , showing for me that osc has a real understanding and empathy for his character and not just writing another story because the first book did well.
This really comes across with the relationship ender has with his sister with jane and the familly he befriends, also with the comunity he affects just by being there. As this is the second book in the series you may feel that you need to read the first and you should because it is an excellent book but the refferences in this book explain themselves so you can read it as a book and not feel left out.
This audio book amazed me. It follows on from Enders Game but is a vast departure from that story in both style and content. Listening to this book is like meditation - it's so deep and moving, and yet never boring. Pure Bliss! Wonderful narration. The first ever audio book to make me cry. So good that I wish I had never heard it, so that I could discover it for the first time again. One of Audible's gems. Ender has changed, but has humankind really altered, also after three thousand years?
In this publication humanity gets an additional chance, this time around with the advantage of hindsight. Will they duplicate their blunders, or gain from them and also manage things better this time around? That is just one of the main inquiries that is answered in this book. The response is explained by the end of this book, so I will not spoil it in my testimonial. The principle of the Pecking order of Foreignness is likewise remarkable.
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