![]() ![]() ![]() 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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