Speaker For the Dead

Speaker For the Dead


By: Orson Scott Card
Reviewed by: Matt, 13
Rating: It was amazing!


After the book Ender's Game (by Orson Scott Card) there are three other books that follow Ender Wiggin. Speaker For the Dead is the one that come right after it, even thought it's set 3,000 years in the future. This is most definetely one of the five best books I've ever read; if not the best. Speaker For the Dead is about the need for tolerance of other species (or in the human reality, anyone who is different in some way)in a progressive society, just as the proceeding books reinforce this but also give the reader a taste really out-there scientific ideas, philosophies and ethical/moral views beyond the set liberal/conservative spectrum.

Basically, Speaker For the Dead tells the story of the Ribeira family, and there reforming (trust me you'll find out) as well as the story of Ender Wiggin, and his tasks of speaking for Marcao Ribeira, settling the Hive Queen into a place on Lusitania (the colony where the story is set) and his task of understanding the Pequininos (or Piggies, the alien species living on Lusitania). So, I hope you read it as well as the rest of the series.


Recommended to: ages12+ even though it's not the most appropriate book out there, I read it at age 12; so I'm going off my standards