Speaker for the Dead

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by Orson Scott Card

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, the second novel in Orson Scott Card's Ender Quintet, is the winner of the 1986 Nebula Award for Best Novel and the 1987 Hugo Award for Best Novel.

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This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.

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This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.

— Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead