Speaker for the Dead

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The Ender Quintet (Volume 2)

Orson Scott Card

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In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: The Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War.

Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but again the aliens' ways are strange and frightening...again, humans die. And it is only the Speaker for the Dead, who is also Ender Wiggin the Xenocide, who has the courage to confront the mystery...and the truth.
 
Speaker for the Dead is the winner of the 1986 Nebula Award for Best Novel and the 1987 Hugo Award for Best Novel.

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SPEAKER FOR THE DEAD (Chapter 1:PIPO)

Since we are not yet fully comfortable with the idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it is presumptuous in the extreme to suppose we could ever look at sociable, tool-making creatures who arose from other evolutionary paths and see not beasts but brothers, not rivals but fellow pilgrims journeying to the shrine of intelligence.

Yet that is what I see, or yearn to see. The difference between raman and varelse is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging. When we declare an alien species to be raman, it does

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Listen to this audiobook excerpt from Orson Scott Card's science fiction novel Speaker for the Dead, the thrilling sequel to Ender's Game and winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards. This full cast unabridged recording includes an original postscript written and recorded by the author.

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"A great read!"--UPI Reviews

"Less brash than Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead may be a much better book. Don't miss it!--Analog

"Told with compassion and keen insight, this powerful sequel to Ender's Game is highly recommended."--Library Journal

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Orson Scott Card

Orson Scott Card is a bestselling science fiction and fantasy author. His novels Ender’s Game and Speaker for the Dead both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the only author to win these two top prizes in consecutive years. There are seven other novels to date in The Ender Universe series. Card has also written fantasy: The Tales of Alvin Maker is a series of fantasy novels set in frontier America; his most recent novel, The Lost Gate, is a contemporary magical fantasy. Card has written many other stand-alone sf and fantasy novels, as well as movie tie-ins and games, and publishes an internet-based science fiction and fantasy magazine, Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show.  Card was born in Washington and grew up in California, Arizona, and Utah. He served a mission for the LDS Church in Brazil in the early 1970s. Besides his writing, Card directs plays and teaches writing and literature at Southern Virginia University. He lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with his wife, Kristine Allen Card, and youngest daughter, Zina Margaret.

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Speaker for the Dead
Author's Definitive Edition
Orson Scott Card

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Hugo Award - Winner, Nebula Awards - Winner

Mass Market Paperbound

Mass Market Paperbound
Tom Doherty Associates
Tor Books
August 1994
Mass Market Paperbound
ISBN: 9780812550757
ISBN10: 0812550757
4 3/16 x 6 3/4 inches, 416 pages
$7.99

Unabridged Compact Disc

Unabridged  Compact Disc
Macmillan Audio
September 2005
Unabridged Compact Disc
ISBN: 9781593974763
ISBN10: 1593974760
Audio Run Time: 14:00
$49.95

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Unabridged  Digital Audio
Macmillan Audio
April 2004
Unabridged Digital Audio
ISBN: 9781593974770
ISBN10: 1593974779
Audio Run Time: 14:00
$24.99

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Hardcover
Tom Doherty Associates
Tor Books
August 1991
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780312937386
ISBN10: 0312937385
6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches, 432 pages
$27.99

Trade Paperback

Trade Paperback
Tom Doherty Associates
Tor Books
August 1992
Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780312853259
ISBN10: 0312853254
6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches, 304 pages
$15.99

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Tom Doherty Associates
Tor Books
November 2009
e-Book Agency
ISBN: 9781429963947
ISBN10: 1429963948
432 pages
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