Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott CardMy rating: 9 of 10 stars
Pages : 382 (feels longer)
Year : 1986
Genre : Sci-Fi
Series : 2 on Ender's Saga
One of the best novels I've read for a while. It started slow and I was not enjoying as much as ender games but as the book progress it turn philosophical and I started enjoying the novel each page more and more... The novel follows the first one , well in a way 2000 years after the one. So how are they alive? Shenningans of time Travel. Travelling from one planet to another can take 20 years of "real" time but for those travelling it takes 2 weeks. So basically you can be immortal. It's a bit strange to be honest.
So, Ender is now a Speaker for the Dead where he goes from place to place talking about people who died, telling the true and so on... A bit strange but ok.
You've got , for the first time a new world called Lusitania (ancient name of Portugal) where a bunch of people went to live there and find out a sentient species. There the first xenobiologits try to talk with them, learn but never interfering for fear of what happened 2000 years ago (Ender went from an hero to the most evil person)
There are lot here, we've got as I said philosophy, there is Christianity beliefs and interaction between and science, you've got questions on how humanity should approach other species, you've got questions about morality, about personality, about community and most of all character development. In the end it was a very good book that make me think a lot. I know why it won so many awards.
Just a warning, although I would rate the same as Ender Game, it's totally different book. Different approach. Different themes and flows. This is no action.
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