About this title: Thousands of years after the events of "Ender's Game", humans have finally discovered a second intelligent species--and this time it is up to Ender to save, rather than destroy, them. Winner of the 1987 Hugo and the 1986 Nebula Awards.
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Tor Books
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780812550757ISBN:0812550757
Description: Acceptable. Overall below average used book. May have highlighting, underlining, notes, price sticker on cover, or be an ex-library book. read more
Description: Good. Tor, PB, 1987, 2nd PB printing. Good reading copy, wear on cover and corners, name on first page, no other markings. Check my store for more than 1500 other sci-fi and fantasy titles. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Tor Books
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780812550757ISBN:0812550757
Description: Acceptable. A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact (the dust cover may be missing). Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Tor Books
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780812550757ISBN:0812550757
Description: Good. A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact (including dustcover, if applicable). The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "from the library of" labels. ******PLEASE NOTE****** Orders placed after Dec. 7 cannot be guaranteed delivery before Christmas unless you select EXPEDITED shipping! Thank you & Happy Holidays! read more
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Description: Acceptable. Book is in good reading condition. Cover has wear at edges and corners, and may have creases. Spine has wear at edges and may have creases. read more
"UGGHHH! I figured since some of my all-time favorite books are Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow, that Speaker for the Dead - another installment of Ender's life - was going knock my socks off too...I was SO disappointed. This book won the Hugo and Nebula awards - and one critic even said this was Card's best work. I have to assume that they weren't reading the same novel I was. They just couldn't have been. It was awful. This book was such a let down, I wish I never would have read it. It completely ruined the future Ender for me, so I'm going to forget the whole story as soon as possible. It was SO far out there, completely boring, and just too nuts that during the most intense part of the book, I found myself reading it as "and blah blah blah, and then blah blah blah..." Ender isn't the same brilliant and complex character he once was, and the new characters Card introduces are just sad. If you are looking for another story that brings back the excitement and intrigue of battle school, look elsewhere. Ender's future is bleak...make a good future for yourself by picking a different book."
"I didn't find this as enjoyable as Enders Game. While it deals with a lot of issues that I usually enjoy in a story (religion, technology, sociology), I felt like the story took a back seat to the writers agenda. It is still a well written book as far as I'm concerned, however, and if I had not read Enders Game first, I probably would have rated it higher. It's amazing how the controversies that Orson Scott Card raises in this series are still relevant today. My husband listened to the book as well, and it sparked some interesting debates. I could see this being a good choice for a book club (that is, if the member s were open to reading sci-fi). Discussing it with another reader allowed me to appreciate better the depth of the story and its characters."
"After reading Ender's Game, I was hungry for more..Now I am reading the sequel and 30 pages in, I have found that the book takes place 3,000 years after the events of the first book and Ender is only mentioned once..but WOW! what a 30 pages so far. Earth's first Alien Encounter with the Formic race ( Buggers) that leads to Earth's first two intergalactic war, in which the Earth is almost destroyed, ends with an Earth Victory. Ender Wiggin is a small child that is taught from birth to become a leader that leads the earth to it's victory in the 3rd and Final war. This first book really does a great job telling how a leader is made through isolation, indoctrination and sometimes harsh conditions in Which Ender is the sad victim and yet strongest, believable Hero I have read about in any science fiction/Fantasy novel. I know that it sounds like typical Sci-Fi fare, but trust me when I say that there is so much substance and exploration into the Human character that makes the first book a wonderful read. It was also a head of it's time in 1984, that within book the prominence of the Internet and it's power over politics and Nations Via blogs and forums discussion was predicted to eerie preciseness. Well, the sequel - Speaker of the Dead, deals with the human race 3,000 years after the first book were Manifest Destiny is alive and well. The humans have spread throughout the galaxy colonizing planets that were once held by the formics. Here the Humans come into contact with a new race which are named "Pequeninos" by the discoveres and the human race sees this as an opportunity to make up for the first failed attempt at first contact with the Formic race from the first book. So far I have met a father and Son Xenologist team (anthropologist) as they are attempting to understand and learn from this new race without revealing too much information about the human race, as the fear is that any information given to this new and young race would advance them farther than they be at this stage in their evolution. What makes that premise so believable is that it takes modern anthropological thought and practices on learning from Apes and other such animals that makes the illusion so much more perfect and this book easy to get into... It appears that the 'Pequeninos' have snouts for noses that they are called 'Piggies" by the common people. They show a great intelligence that they have already learned the basic English language after 15 years of study and interaction with the humans, and live a tribal life. There is a mystery as to how they reproduce, as no female species so far, have been encountered. Now the current character that we have been following has had a Revelation and he steps out to discuss with the pequeninos at which he is not heard from for 4 hours. Needless to say, tragedy and misunderstanding is headed my way..and I cannot wait to get to it in this book"
"Calling this book the sequel to Ender's Game is like calling Mary Poppins the sequel to Star Wars. It's boring, overly observational, and totally unrelated in style and setting to Ender's Game."
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