Speaker for the Dead - Orson Scott Card

Speaker for the Dead is the sequel to Orson Scott Card’s most enjoyable book, Ender’s Game. This sequel, whilst not as eminently readable as its precursor, is a better, more mature book. Andrew (Ender) Wiggin, has taken refuge, in the company of his beloved sister Valentine, in the relativistic effects of time, fleeing the spatio-temporal reality of his role in the cataclysmic climax of Ender’s Game (trying not to give away the ending), where he was subjected to the power and manipulations of others, stripped of his family and his childhood, and transformed from a boy into a soldier into a hero, but is now reviled as a xenocide. Ender the ...  Read the complete review