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Speaker for the Dead
by Orson Scott Card
This book is hard to review, because I had a hard time reading it at first. It's the second in the Ender's Game series and continues to follow Ender Wiggins (now Andrew Wiggins) some 3000 years after the events in Enders Game.
It takes place, mainly, on a planet where only the second sentient species in the universe has been found, called The Piggies. After a member of the human colony living on the planet is killed by the Piggies, Andrew is called to speak his death. Which means, to learn about the man's life, figure out why he died and what his true story was (who he really was as a person).
The story really started, for me, once Ender arrived on the planet (some 22 years after the man's death - space travel is not instantaneous, as humans can only travel near the speed of light). The beginning of the story is basically backstory... explaining human's first contact with the piggies, and the mentality of the humans at the time. It helps to have read Ender's Game, simply so you can understand who Ender is, what he's been through in his life, and why the people decide to keep distance from the piggies (while attempting to learn about them at the same time).
I would recommend this book to anyone who's read Ender's Game, or would like to see what an alien life "could" look like. One of the nicest things for me about this story was just how different, and yet how similar, the Piggies are to humans. It's nice to read a story about aliens that hasn't made them into scary green things, or creatures just like ourselves.
It takes place, mainly, on a planet where only the second sentient species in the universe has been found, called The Piggies. After a member of the human colony living on the planet is killed by the Piggies, Andrew is called to speak his death. Which means, to learn about the man's life, figure out why he died and what his true story was (who he really was as a person).
The story really started, for me, once Ender arrived on the planet (some 22 years after the man's death - space travel is not instantaneous, as humans can only travel near the speed of light). The beginning of the story is basically backstory... explaining human's first contact with the piggies, and the mentality of the humans at the time. It helps to have read Ender's Game, simply so you can understand who Ender is, what he's been through in his life, and why the people decide to keep distance from the piggies (while attempting to learn about them at the same time).
I would recommend this book to anyone who's read Ender's Game, or would like to see what an alien life "could" look like. One of the nicest things for me about this story was just how different, and yet how similar, the Piggies are to humans. It's nice to read a story about aliens that hasn't made them into scary green things, or creatures just like ourselves.