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Speaker for the Dead
by Orson Scott Card
This has always been my favorite book in the series or saga or cycle, whatever you want to call Ender's universe. And it is among my top 5 favorite books of all time. I have always liked Ender's Game also, but as Orson Scott Card himself said, it exists to set the stage for Speaker for the Dead. This book and most of Ursula K. LeGuin's Hannish cycle are prime examples of why I love science fiction. Though this story deals every much with aliens, it is about humanity. It's about how humans react individually and in groups. It's about how we as humans deal with the unknown. How we deal with Truth and how we differentiate truth and fact. I will forever treasure this novel. And perhaps, once the Ender's Game film comes out and is received with great fanfare, they will chose to bring this one to the screen as well.
I know that OSC is on a personal level, rather a jerk. That is, he is motivated by his religion and the politics that accompany it. And while a few of his novels reflect these beliefs in a discouraging manner, this one does not. Not to say that it does not deal with religion and politics, because it does, quite a lot. But it doesn't push his beliefs, and so is bearable.
I know that OSC is on a personal level, rather a jerk. That is, he is motivated by his religion and the politics that accompany it. And while a few of his novels reflect these beliefs in a discouraging manner, this one does not. Not to say that it does not deal with religion and politics, because it does, quite a lot. But it doesn't push his beliefs, and so is bearable.