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ithlilian 's review for:
Speaker for the Dead
by Orson Scott Card
People that are just starting this series and saw the Ender's Game movie may be a bit confused. There are no kids operating spaceships here, just some foreign speaking alien creatures and some exhausting characters on a random planet. You get to experience a lot of my life is terrible and I don't fit in anywhere inner monolog which is analyzed by another character, just in case you weren't sick of it enough. Then ooo, who are these aliens why are they singing to trees and killing people?! Then back to irritating characters analyzing themselves. It somehow takes hundreds of pages to make much progress with anything but you have to keep going simply because you want to understand how tree people reproduce. That's it.
This is what sci fi is...exploring different possible alien ways of life and how a society would react to it. Exploring future religions and their influence on daily life. So this is just like many other science fiction books written at the time, but because we were already drawn in with Ender here we are reading this. If you aren't expecting it, this is a huge jarring change, and if you are expecting it I don't think there is much that is special or mind blowing about it.
This is what sci fi is...exploring different possible alien ways of life and how a society would react to it. Exploring future religions and their influence on daily life. So this is just like many other science fiction books written at the time, but because we were already drawn in with Ender here we are reading this. If you aren't expecting it, this is a huge jarring change, and if you are expecting it I don't think there is much that is special or mind blowing about it.