In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: The Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War.
Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but again the aliens' ways are strange and frightening...again, humans die. And it is only the Speaker for the Dead, who is also Ender Wiggin the Xenocide, who has the courage to confront the mystery...and the truth.
Speaker for the Dead, the second novel in Orson Scott Card's Ender Quintet, is the winner of the 1986 Nebula Award for Best Novel and the 1987 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
THE ENDER UNIVERSE
Ender series
Ender's Game / Ender in Exile / Speaker for the Dead / Xenocide / Children of the MindEnder's Shadow series
Ender's Shadow / Shadow of the Hegemon / Shadow Puppets / Shadow of the Giant / Shadows in FlightChildren of the Fleet
The First Formic War (with Aaron Johnston)
Earth Unaware / Earth Afire / Earth AwakensThe Second Formic War (with Aaron Johnston)
The Swarm /The HiveEnder novellas
A War of Gifts /First Meetings
- ISBN10 1593974760
- ISBN13 9781593974763
- Publish Date 1 September 2005 (first published 15 February 1987)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 26 August 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint MacMillan Audio
- Format Audiobook (CD)
- Pages 12
- Language English
Reviews
dokie80
adamfortuna
empressbrooke
I abandoned all the rest of the plans I had for the evening to read this in one sitting. There aren't any armies of children or exciting battles, but Ender uses his classic get-into-everyone's-heads tactics and helps a colony unravel the mysteries of its citizens and an alien species that kills two of the colony's anthropologists.
My only regret is that I didn't read this series earlier.