Take a photo of a barcode or cover
A review by terryjray
Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card
5.0
I highly recommend this one to any fan of sci-fi. A couple of friends recommended this one to me and I'm glad they did. I'd read Ender's Game a long while back, probably early 2000s and I loved it but very much associated it with military sci-fi so I was in no way prepared for this brilliant, thoughtful novel which is as much about humanity as it is about science fiction.
Having learned from their mistakes and (near) genocide of the Formics, humans are trying to take a more 'hands off' approach with the adorable yet inexplicably barbaric Pequeninos. Alas, we 'human it up' anyway and of course things go terribly awry. I loved the creativity Card displays on the Pequeninos three "lives," the AI girlfriend Jane and the emerging science of xenology. Very fun stuff :)
Having learned from their mistakes and (near) genocide of the Formics, humans are trying to take a more 'hands off' approach with the adorable yet inexplicably barbaric Pequeninos. Alas, we 'human it up' anyway and of course things go terribly awry. I loved the creativity Card displays on the Pequeninos three "lives," the AI girlfriend Jane and the emerging science of xenology. Very fun stuff :)