He and Valentine had passed them by centuries ago, worlds ago.”ĭuring a discussion of the Bugger war with his students, Ender is shocked to receive news of Pipo’s death.Ĭhapter 3 - Libo: On Lusitania, colonists attempt to understand why Pipo has been killed. He had spent years now without making any real connection with anyone but his sister Valentine … All the other people who had meant anything to him in his life were dead. “It frightened him to have this girl need something from him so desperately. The main purpose of this chapter is to re-establish the character of Ender, including explaining how time dilation effects have caused his apparent youth. On being presented with this information Pipo rushes off to talk to the piggies, but is later found vivisected near their encampment.Ĭhapter 2 - Trondheim: Ender, now going by the name of Andrew Wiggins, is re-introduced. Novinha discovers that the disease which killed both her parents, descolada, is present in all native life-forms.

The Pequeninos (piggies) and the characters of Pipo, his son Libo, and Novinha are also introduced. Chapter SummariesĬhapter 1 - Pipo: An introduction to the world of Lusitania (which, given Orson Scott Card’s use of Portuguese throughout the book, is likely a reference to the Roman province which included southern Portugal). Due to relativistic space travel Ender himself is still alive, although now passing as Andrew Wiggins to dissociate himself from his past as both ‘The Xenocide’ and the original Speaker For the Dead. Distraught at their plight he writes The Hive Queen under the pseudonym ‘Speaker For the Dead’.īy 5270 the humanist movement the book sparked has lead to Ender’s actions being widely reviled, in a interesting example of what could be called historic revisionism.

At the end of Ender’s Game the titular character is contacted by the last remaining member of the Bugger, or Formic, race of insectioid aliens he had unknowingly bought to the brink of destruction. Unlike the earlier novel, Speaker For the Dead has a philosophical tone rather than focusing on hard science fiction and the warrior ethos. He novel is set in the year 5270, 3,000 or so years after Ender’s Game, to which it forms the first of four indirect sequels. As Ender’s Game had won the same awards in the previous year this meant Orson Scott Card became the first author to win both awards in two consecutive years. It has won several accolades, including the 1986 Nebula award and 1987 Hugo award.

Speaker For the Dead is a science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card, released in 1986.

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