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Speaker for the Dead
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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!.
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Winner, Nebula Award
"The most powerful work Card has produced. Speaker not only completes Ender's Game, it transcends it." ( Fantasy Review)
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Global4 out of 5 stars
- Joe
- 13/06/2005
The Enderverse
This is my favorite science fiction series. The characters are easy to identify with, and you will find yourself sucked into this imaginary universe, nicknamed the Enderverse by fans.
Recommended order of reading (in my opinion): Ender?s Game, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets, Shadow of the Giant, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind. Reading the books in this order will keep you interested and keep the story moving more naturally.
If after reading all of these wonderful books you are still itching for an Enderverse fix then read First Meetings. The list above is sorted by the Enderverse timeline. Meaning that the flow of events in the stories are uninterrupted. If you were to read the books in the order they were published, you would bounce back and forth in between time and few of the plot twists in future books would be revealed before you wanted them to be known. First Meetings, however contains short stories that occur both before and in between the list above within the Enderverse.
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Global2 out of 5 stars
- AB
- 13/02/2008
The Anti-Ender's Game
I picked this book because I had very much enjoyed Ender's Game and "Speaker" is the continuation of the story. However, it is also completely different in speed and style. While "Ender's Game" is mostly science fiction of the technical kind (spaceships, battles, etc.) and moves along well most of the time, "Speaker" is a tedious, slow-as-molasses study of religion, family relationships, childhood neuroses, and endlessly repeated sermons on tolerance. The passages in Portuguese, on the Catholic teachings, and others are tedious and boring.
You may end up liking "Speaker", but it won't be for the same reasons you may like "Ender's Game". Be forewarned.
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- Scott Fabel
- 24/04/2013
Great story, but the performance was dreadful
After having read "Ender's Game," I was eager to read "Speaker for the Dead." I was definitely not disappointed. According to interviews with the author, Orson Scott Card, "Speaker for the Dead" was the original book that he wanted to write. He wrote "Ender's Game" as a kind of introduction to "Speaker for the Dead." Although "Ender's Game" has become far more well-known and more popular than "Speaker for the Dead," I can see why this was the story that the author really wanted to write. The story is much richer and deeper. I feel as if it's written for a more mature audience, and its themes reflect that maturity. Don't get me wrong. I loved "Ender's Game," yet I think I enjoyed "Speaker for the Dead" just as much--only for different reasons.
Let me get the bad news out of the way. The audio recording of this book was terrible. I don't want to say that the actual performance of the narrators was bad because it really wasn't. The problem was that there were just too many narrators, and they were used inconsistently throughout the book. At times, there were shifts from one narrator to another mid-paragraph, and it didn't seem to be done for any reason. I certainly don't want to say that this lessened the story in any way. After all, it's the same story whether listening to one narrator or 50. Even so, the shifting back and forth was distracting. As if that weren't bad enough, there was also periodic background music that was played during the performance. Again, this seemed to show up in random locations. There was one location in particular in which music just started playing mid-sentence and the ended in the middle of the following sentence. Usually, I expect some of that background music to signal a change in chapter, theme, or something else recognizable. That was surely not the case here. Again, it didn't lessen the story, but it was distracting. It wouldn't be such a bad thing for the story to be re-recorded without the performance issues.
Now, on to the good news. This book takes place 3000 years after "Ender's Game"; however, thanks to space travel at relativistic speeds, both Ender and Valentine are still alive--and in their 30s! In many ways, this book picks up not long after "Ender's Game" concludes. Ender has now become the Speaker for the Dead. After the events that occurred earlier in his life (in "Ender's Game"), he decides to dedicate himself to speaking the death of other people. Perhaps he sees this as atonement for his earlier life. In this book, humans have discovered a new, alien life form, the Pequeninos (also known as "piggies"), on the planet Lusitania. A death occurs on this planet, and Ender is called to speak the death.
This book is far more philosophical than "Ender's Game." The Speaker for the Dead does not deliver a traditional eulogy for those who have died. Instead, he speaks the truth. This concept resonated strongly with me because I think a lot of people don't get to have the truth spoken at their funerals. While this idea of speaking for the dead is a central theme of the book, there are many others. For example, the interactions between the humans and the piggies is extraordinary. It frames the way in which we, as humans, look at anything or anyone who is different from us, as something that needs to be either protected or changed. We seem to think that we are the most evolved species and, subsequently, the most intelligent. Although the book doesn't necessarily contradict this belief, it does make the reader question it. Finally, I want to also mention that the Catholic Church is alive and well in the far-off future. There were very interesting discussions of religious themes throughout the book. The Catholic Church has a prominent role on Lusitania, and it must somehow align its teachings with the new reality of an alien life form.
Overall, this was an enjoyable read. It still exists in the same general universe as "Ender's Game," yet it is its own story. The more mature philosophical themes make this a great book for older readers, but it's still science fiction. This seems to be a great combination, and I look forward to reading other books in the Ender series.
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Global4 out of 5 stars
- J. T. Mitchum
- 07/01/2009
As implied by title: Not Ender's Game
I enjoyed this book, but I enjoyed it because I did not expect Ender's Game proper.
There was a lot about Ender's Game I enjoyed, but I can sub-categorize all my favorite parts into two important distinctions. Military strategy and group leadership versus interpersonal development and politics.
If you really only enjoyed the military portions of Ender's Game, then you may consider leaving Speaker of the Dead out. Scott Card wrote Ender's Game so he could write Speaker for the Dead. The way he writes the characters in Speaker for the Dead I have found to be a reliable measure for his other books in the Enderverse.
Reading about waging a war is awesome because of the absolution both sides of a war feel, a solidarity under one banner, so to speak. At the end of war, we have fractured absolution and limited solidarity -- complex topics to say the least.
Speaker for the dead is about this post-war universe. The threads of religion and science woven throughout the personalities is beautifully done in a way that should be neutral enough to spawn debate, but with the author's beliefs only somewhat veiled. Reading a book like this often makes me feel we are more predictable in groups than we are when left to our private choices.
This book gives weight to the phrase "where there is a will, there is a way." Of course -- not all wills are good ones ...
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Global5 out of 5 stars
- Michael
- 08/07/2003
Listen to the Speaker
<U>Speaker for the Dead</U> is a terrific sequel to <U>Ender's Game</U>. Where <U>Ender's Game</U> was exciting and suspenseful science fiction, <U>Speaker for the Dead</U> is like Ender himself, all grown up. Where Ender was a brilliant child reacting to the pressures and problems of the IF, Andrew Wiggin, the Speaker for the Dead, brings wisdom and maturity to the character we all came to love in <U>Ender's Game</U>.
Terrificly narrated by Stefan Rudnicki and the rest of the awesome Fantistic Audio players, I highly recommend this book. The Afterword by the author is also helpful in putting the first two books of series in perspective.
Orson Scott Card has created a terrific universe with his <B><U>Ender Wiggin</U></B> series. I am proud to say that I discovered it here on audible.com and look forward to listening to some of the later books in the series soon.
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Global5 out of 5 stars
- Todd Wynia
- 12/01/2003
A brilliant book
I listened to Enders Game and really loved it. Orson Scott Card is a fabulous writer. So when it came time to download a new book, I got Speaker for the Dead. And again I loved the book.
The author manages to create a completely new society and social structure of another species on a far away world. The interaction between the humans and this other species makes you question your own assumptions about people of other cultures. How much of our current world tension is a result of true incompatibility and how much is due to just misunderstanding the other culture?
So the book has that whole deep "hmmm" thing going on and it's just entertaining. It's got enough mystery to keep you guessing about how situations will turn out. A sentient computer "program" named Jane adds another element of interest.
As with Enders Game, this audiobook used multiple narrators. They all did an excellent job with the exception of a way overly dramatic female. I found I couldn't wait 'til we moved on to another narrator. Sorry lady. Turn down the acting knob a little. Even with Little Miss Drama, this book is well worth listening to.
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Global4 out of 5 stars
- Josh Mitchell
- 13/04/2006
Good story, okay narration
First, this isn't Ender's Game. It's an entirely different kind of story, so if you're looking for the pseudo-military sci-fi action of Ender's Game, you will be disappointed. That said, this is one of Card's better works, with rich, interesting characters and a fascinating (if slower-moving) plot.
The multi-person reading is not very well done, however. At best, it's distracting; at worst, obnoxious--one of the female readers, in particular, has a habit of reading every sentence as though it's the saddest and most important thing ever written. The book's main narrator is (fortunately) quite good.
Overall, recommended.
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Global2 out of 5 stars
- Utilisateur anonyme
- 21/07/2004
Poor follow-up to Ender's Game
For those who read this BECAUSE they enjoyed "Ender's Game": Beware, "Speaker for the Dead" is nothing like it. I loved Ender's Game. It was a suspenseful, delightful, innovative journey with the hero as he brilliantly solved the challenges he faced. Author Card kept the surprises coming as he let you in on the inner workings of the mind of a genius child.
There is none of that in Speaker for the Dead, which is melodramatic without being suspenseful or insightful. Instead, minutia is presented where plot and storyline is what is needed. I never would have made it to the end of the story if I had not read Ender's Game first. On the basis of Ender's Game, I kept reading (listening) hoping that Card would at some point deliver the goods. It never happens.
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Global2 out of 5 stars
- Eric T
- 08/12/2004
Not worth the time
First off, this is a review of the "Speaker for the Dead" three-book series, which includes "Xenocide" and "Children of the Mind".
If you're considering this book, then you probably thought "Ender's Game was cool!" Ender's Game tricks you into thinking this book and its series is cool. Assuming you ignore this review, I will now tell your future...
As you finish listening to Speaker for the Dead you will think, "Well, okay. Maybe it will get better." Then, as you finish Xenocide you think, "Okay, it's not going to get better, but I might as well finish the series and see what happens." As you're listening to the long, drawn out, redundant, and contradicting dialogues and monologues of Children of the Mind, your own mind will wander and you will think "I wonder what will be the next book I listen to."
When you get to the end of the last book, when the ending is far less than spectacular, you'll sit and reflect. You'll think and reflect for a few hours about what you took out of the Speaker for the Dead series and you will finally come to your ultimate conclusion........"Well, at least Ender's Game was cool!"
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Global5 out of 5 stars
- Cathleen
- 19/01/2003
Amazing!!!!
As much as I enjoyed Ender's Game, I loved this book more. I liked the action of Ender's Game, but it was the inner conflicts and thoughts of his character that I really enjoyed. (Card made me really care about Ender and what happened to him.) It is just this kind of intimacy that I think is the core of this book. It has such emotional intensity with a transcendant spirituality,that made me want to "inhale" this book. I found myself just sitting in my car long after I had reached my destination just to complete another chapter. This book grabbed me and flung me on the roller coaster of its message, and I didn't want to ever get off.
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Global4 out of 5 stars
- Alexander Kranz
- 03/01/2007
Do you know Ender?
Diese Buch reiht sich tadelos nach Enders Game ein. Es enthält viele interessante Gedanken und Wahrheiten. Der Einstieg war für mich etwas holperig, aber das Buch ist Spitze und bis zum Ende wunderschön. Wer einen kleinen Fable für Science Fiction und Philosophie übrig hat und Englisch gerne hört dem ist diese Hörbuch nur zu empfehlen. Leider empfand ich das Buch dennoch etwas schwächer als Enders Game. Deshalb leider "nur" 4 Sterne.
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Global5 out of 5 stars
- Sweet´n Sour
- 18/03/2007
Eine grandiose Fortsetzung !
Dies Buch ist zwar die direkte Fortsetzung von Enders Game, aber die zentrale Thematik ist eine ganz andere! Es geht hier um die Probleme, die aus Unverständnis füreinander erwachsen. Unverständnis für andere Rassen, Religionen und ganz allgemein für anders Denkende.
Dies spiegelt sich auf vielen Ebenen: Von den Problemen der Kolonisten des Planeten Lusitania untereinander über die in Ihrem Verhalten zunächst rätselhaft unverständlichen Ureinwohner des Planeten bis hin zum global falsch verstandenen Schutz der Außerirdischen durch die menschliche Rasse, die eigentlich doch nur sich selbst beschützen will.
Ender Wiggins Aufgabe besteht hier darin, als 'Sprecher für die Toten' die Wahrheit hinter den vorschnellen Annahmen und falschen Vorraussetzungen zu sehen, und für andere sichtbar zu machen, um dadurch seine persönliche Schuld am Untergang der 'Bugger' ein Stück weit wieder gutzumachen.
Im Zeitalter des 'Kampfes der Kulturen' (Samuel P. Huntington) ist 'Speaker for the Dead' sowohl ein brilliant geschriebenes, als auch ein hochgradig aktuelles Buch. Es führt ?Enders Game? nicht nur fort, sondern hebt es auf eine höhere Ebene.
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- Wojciech Müller
- 17/04/2023
Great Story awful audio
What the hell is this? The speakers change mid dialogue, the same speaker looses track of who is speaking and sounds are played at random moments that interrupt the flow. The story is perfect but this audiobook makes me reconsider if I shouldn’t just buy the text version and use some text-to-speech app to read to me.
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- Amazon Kunde
- 11/02/2018
Pursuing a wonderful thougt
Orson Scott Card says that he just wrote Enders Game as a preface so he could pursue his idea of the speaker for the dead. In this book we meet Ender in a mission for peace between several alien species in his role as a speaker. There is no shot fired in the entire book and only three people die. But the story ist among the best, deepest and most thoughtfull i read in my live. Now I will directly continue with children of the mind.
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Global5 out of 5 stars
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- JanS
- 04/05/2023
Love the book, hate the production
The book tells one of the best stories I've ever had the pleasure to get to know and I think everyone who is even remotely interested should read it.
I'm very dissatisfied with the production of the audio book though. I was under the impression that there would be 2 different readers (as it says so on the audible website) but there are at least 5 and they switch not per character but at seemingly random intervals. Sometimes it's the same person for a whole chapter and sometimes they switch during a chapter from one sentence to the next. This makes it harder to follow and less pleasurable to listen to it. If you have different speakers then use one for each character or at least one per chapter but don't switch randomly.
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Global5 out of 5 stars
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- IngramS.
- 30/10/2022
A very special book
It rarely happens that a book carries this much relevance to the world we live in like this one.
It’s far from perfect. And a bumpy read at points.
But the essence and themes of this story make it one of the best and most relevant books I’ve ever read.
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- Norger
- 25/05/2022
One of the really great ones.
This story builds a complex and inflict universe and still it is told a way easy to understand. It is deeply human and picks up with delicate fingers the issue of religion in a new world. On sci-fi scale it's more biological than it is technical. Many different characters are nicely formed.
The entire story is build on the Enders Game. And I totally agree with the author, this story is the main book and and in my opinion much nicer, much more human and much more complex, and altogether a much better book than the Enders Game. Enders Game is more known and won prizes and is still a very good book but my heart is in the Speaker of the Dead. Weirdly enough both titles set the atmosphere the opposite of the real feeling of each book. Enders game is mainly about death in war and violence, while The Speaker of the Death is more playful and embraces live. It is a more happy book. But of course you need to read Enders Game first, if it makes you unhappy, do not give up. Read this one!
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- Konstantinos
- 18/12/2021
A sequel better than the 1rst book
An amazing story with captivating characters and unexpected turn of events. A nice continuation to Ender's Game.
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- Hendrik
- 05/03/2021
Ein meisterhaftes Werk, wunderbar vertont
Der Kommentar am Ende dieses tollen Buches. Philosophischer Hauch mit wunderbarer Geschichte verwoben. Nach Ender's Game und Ender's Shadow ist dies nahezu Pflichtlektüre für alle, die wissen wollen, wie die Welt und das Universum weiter existieren und welche Schwierigkeiten die Entdeckung von neuen Lebensformen mit sich bringt.
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- Reso
- 28/02/2021
My favorite
Give it a listen. You won't regret it.
My only point of criticism is that the music is place weirdly in between lines.
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