Speaker for the dead

by Orson Scott Card

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Series (with order)

Ender's Game (2)

Ender's Game: Extended (2)

Canonical Title

Speaker for the Dead

Original publication date

1986

People/Characters

Ender (Andrew Wiggin)

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Awards and honors

Hugo (Novel, 1987)

Nebula (Novel, 1986)

Locus (Novel, 1987)

John W. Campbell Memorial Award Finalist (1987)

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First words

Since we are not yet fully comfortable with the idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it is presumptuous in the extreme to suppose we could ever look at sociable, tool-making creatures who arose form other evolutionary paths and see not beasts but brothers, not rivals but fellow pilgrims journeying to the shrine of intelligence.

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Only one rabbi dared to expect of us such a perfect balance that we could preserve the law and still forgive the deviation. So, of course, we killed him.

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Amazon.com (ISBN 0812550757, Mass Market Paperback)

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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