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Speaker for the Dead
Book 2 of Ender's Saga
- 415 pages · about 7 hours
- First published 1986
- 39 editions
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1 About this book
Speaker for the Dead is a 1986 science fiction novel by American writer Orson Scott Card, a sequel to the 1985 novel Ender's Game. The book takes place around the year 5270, some 3,000 years after the events in Ender's Game. However, because of relativistic space travel at near-light speed, Ender himself is only about 35 years old.
This is the first book to describe the Starways Congress, a high standpoint legislature for the human space colonies, and the Hundred Worlds, the planets with human colonies that are tightly intertwined by Ansible technology, which enables instantaneous communication across any distance.
Like Ender's Game, the book won the Nebula Award (1986) and the Hugo Award (1987). Speaker for the Dead was published in a slightly revised edition in 1991. It was followed by Xenocide and Children of the Mind.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Good for readers who want: science fiction, epic fantasy, and space travel.
- Comics & graphic novels, science fiction
- Science fiction
- Fantasy, epic
- Interplanetary voyages
- Fantasy
- Ender Wiggin
- Extraterrestrial beings
- Space warfare
2 About Orson Scott Card
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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