Science Fiction · ThoughtfulThree thousand years after Ender's Game, a Speaker for the Dead visits a Catholic colony beside a sentient species
Speaker for the Dead
A sequel that moves three thousand years on, to a colony beside an alien species
Tor Books published the novel in March 1986, and the first-edition hardcover has 415 pages. It is the sequel to Ender's Game. It is set around the year 5270, about 3,000 years later, though relativistic travel means Ender is only about 35. Human colonies on the Hundred Worlds are linked by ansible and governed by the Starways Congress. The story centers on Lusitania, home to a Brazilian Catholic colony called Milagre and a sentient forest species the colonists call the Pequeninos. A revised edition followed in 1991.
More about this book
Who
Ender Wiggin, Novinha, the xenologers Pipo and Libo, Miro and Ouanda.
World
The Hundred Worlds around the year 5270, and the colony of Lusitania.
What makes it different
Ender writes under the name "Speaker for the Dead", which starts a movement of Speakers. It won the Hugo, the Nebula and the Locus Award, and Card has said it is "unfilmable".
Feel
Reflective and humane.
Page count and cover shown for: Selected edition
Further reading
- Speaker for the DeadWikipedia