Speaker for the Dead 1986
- Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10
Ender Wiggin, the young military genius, discovers that a second alien war is inevitable and that he must dismiss his fears to make peace with humanity's strange new brothers.
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- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Orson Scott Card
- First published
- 1986
- Pages
- 415
- Publisher
- TOR, FollettBound Platinum, Círculo de Lectores
- Editions
- 39
- Language
- Polish, Russian, English, French
- ISBN
- 9780812550757
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- Reading Level-Grade 9
- Reading Level-Grade 8
- Reading Level-Grade 11
- Reading Level-Grade 10
- Reading Level-Grade 12
- Comics & graphic novels, science fiction
- Wiggin, ender (fictitious character), fiction
- Lusitania (imaginary place), fiction
- Fiction, science fiction, hard science fiction
- Fiction, fantasy, epic
- Fiction
- Extraterrestrial beings
“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.”
Orson Scott Card is an American novelist, critic, public speaker, essayist and columnist. He writes in several genres but is known best for science fiction. His novel Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel Speaker for the Dead (1986) both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the only author to win both science fiction's top U.S. prizes in consecutive years.
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