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Speaker for the Dead

By: Orson Scott Card
Narrated by: David Birney, Stefan Rudnicki
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 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 by Portuguese colonists on the planet Lusitania. 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. Orson Scott Card infuses this tale with intellect by casting his characters in social, religious, and cultural contexts.

This, the author's definitive edition of the sequel to Ender's Game, also includes an original postscript written and recorded by the author himself, Orson Scott Card!.

©1986, 1990 Orson Scott Card; (P)2002 Fantastic Audio, an Imprint of Audio Literature Adventure Military Science Fiction Space Opera Thought-Provoking War Portugal

Critic reviews

  • Hugo Award Winner, Best Novel, 1987
  • Nebula Award Winner, Best Novel, 1986

"The most powerful work Card has produced. Speaker not only completes Ender's Game, it transcends it." (Fantasy Review)
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I enjoyed this book incredibly!
the story itself was as incredible and insitnful and real feeling as ever. I admire the thought prossess that created this story and love the words in which it was told!
It has changed the way I think about people and how to see them and why they do what they do. You can't hate someone if you understand them. This simple idea and prossess created a chin of event in my mind that I think has created a much deeper and detailed way of think. And I love that!
That's one of the many things I learned here.
I look faward to listening to the rest of these stories.

Thinking is beautifuly complex

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Really enjoyed this story. Great listening to different tellers with balanced inflections in their voices. Thought provoking, yet fun.

Best book yet...

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amazing story and gripping. love the series of ender. so much detail its like your there with them.

could listen to this over and over again.

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I love this whole series. The second book is as always wonderfully narrated. This book is quite different from the first, and that is a good thing. The author isn't being lazy and looking at the same questions over and over again. This, as it happens, is true for most of his books.

Changes the gears for the series (still great!)

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Found a bit slow to start with, but got into stride after a while. Loved the piggies narration, well written.

Interesting read

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