Island Richards

Speaker for the Dead (Ender, Book 2)

Ender returns in Orson Scott Card’s Speaker for the Dead, the sequel to Card’s masterpiece, Ender’s Game. It is some twenty years later in Ender’s life, and because of the relativity of space travel, three thousand years have passed in the universe. In the aftermath of the destruction of an entire sentient species at the hands of Ender, now known as The Xenocide, Earth’s population has spread out across the galaxy, where, on the faraway planet of Lusitania, a new sentient species has been found. After years of peacefully studying the seemingly benevolant and intelligent species, the colonists are shocked when Pepo, the man who studies them, becomes the victim of a gruesome murder at their hands. While Ender’s Game was Card’s masterpiece, Speaker for the Dead was the book that Card truly wanted to write. In it, Card explores the question of how we really would react if we were given the opportunity to live side by side with another intelligent life form. It is an in depth critique of what really makes us human, and a must read, especially for fans of Ender.

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