While there are many sequels to the Ender’s Game series, I was told to read Speaker for the Dead next. He quickly found the book and thrust it in my hands and said “You’re reading this now.” What followed next was my newest obsession.Īfter reading Ender’s Game, I could not wait to get the next book. I was looking at a book when my friend Josh had found out I never read the Ender’s Game series, and dragged me to the sci-fi section. I only recently became an Ender fan when a friend introduced the series to me a few months ago. Although there is more depth and though-provoking questions in Speaker for the Dead, Card continues to tell his story with a similar writing style that produces another successful, entertaining, and edge-of-your-seat novel. While Ender’s Game was filled with action,war and unforgettable battles, Speaker for the Dead is a far different novel. This book has a more philosophical style as it examines the relationships between the humans and the piggies, life, religion and government.

Ender comes to the colony to speak the deaths of the victims, but he also comes to discover the mystery of the piggies. The Speaker is none other than the Xenocide himself, Ender, who goes by a different alias now. Will this race advance and wind up engaging them in war just like their former enemies had? Meanwhile, a Speaker for the Dead (somewhat similar to a eulogizer at a funeral) is summoned to the colony to speak the deaths of the murder victims.

Everything seems peaceful and friendly at first, but when two of the researchers discover a secret of the piggies, they are found murdered outside of the colony. The top xenologists observe and interact with this peculiar race although everything they do is strictly monitored to make sure that the humans do not interfere with their development. The alien race, called the piggies because of their pig-like resemblance, is studied from a colony on their home world known as Lustania. Humanity still suffers guilt from the infamous xenocide of the bugger race committed 3000 years ago (Ender’s Game.) They now see this new developing race as a way to make amends for their wrongdoing. One planet in particular holds a special place for the humans because a primitive alien race has been discovered inhabiting it. It is now 3000 years after the events of Ender’s Game, and the human race has dispersed amongst the stars to inhabit new planets.

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