Sci-Fi
Speaker for the Dead
1986·415 pages
Three millennia after Ender's Game, Ender Wiggin travels as a Speaker for the Dead to a colony planet, unraveling mysteries surrounding human-alien interactions with the native 'piggies.
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Three millennia after Ender's Game, Ender Wiggin travels as a Speaker for the Dead to a colony planet, unraveling mysteries surrounding human-alien interactions with the native 'piggies.
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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. ... Ender series Ender’s Game / Ender in Exile / Speaker for the Dead / Xenocide / Children of the Mind · Ender’s Shadow series Ender’s Shadow / Shadow of the Hegemon / Shadow Puppets / Shadow of the Giant / Shadows in Flight ... The Amazon Book Review Book recommendations, author interviews, editors' picks, and more.
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What's Inside
will contain mild spoilers
Romance & sex
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Extensive discussion of adultery, human reproduction, and the sexual biology of the alien piggies; no on-page sex scenes.
Violence & gore
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Alien cultural rituals involve graphic violence and death; human conflicts remain non-graphic.
Profanity
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Occasional mild profanity in dialogue.
Substance use
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No substance use depicted.
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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No LGBTQ+ characters or themes present.
Religious content
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Catholic bishop and parishioners feature; religious rituals and tensions with humanism are recurring.
Magic & witchcraft
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No magic or witchcraft present.
Occult / demonology
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No occult or demonological content present.
Political content
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Central exploration of xenophobia, cultural misunderstanding, colonialism, and interspecies ethics.
Self-harm / suicide
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No self-harm or suicide depicted.
Abuse & suffering
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Toxic relationships, infidelity fallout, community ostracism, and inherited guilt from past atrocities.
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