Sci-Fi
Speaker for the Dead
1986·415 pages
Three millennia after Ender's Game, Ender Wiggin travels as a Speaker for the Dead to a colony planet, unraveling mysteries surrounding human-alien interactions with the native 'piggies.
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Three millennia after Ender's Game, Ender Wiggin travels as a Speaker for the Dead to a colony planet, unraveling mysteries surrounding human-alien interactions with the native 'piggies.
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Speaker for the Dead, the second novel in Orson Scott Card's The Ender Saga, is the winner of the 1986 Nebula Award for Best Novel and the 1987 Hugo Award for Best Novel.In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: The Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War.Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but again the aliens' ways are strange and frightening...again, humans die. And it is only the Speaker...
What's Inside
will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Brief mentions of infidelity and sexual relationships; no on-page explicit scenes.
Violence & gore
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Graphic violence including ritualistic alien killings, a young boy's crippling injury, and intense confrontations; body horror from a deadly virus.
Profanity
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Occasional mild profanity in dialogue.
Substance use
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No substance use depicted.
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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No LGBTQIA+ representation.
Religious content
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Secular 'Speaking' rituals for the dead resemble funerals; themes of forgiveness without overt religiosity.
Witchcraft / occult
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No witchcraft or occult elements.
Political content
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Central themes of prejudice against outsiders, cultural relativism, empathy across species, and colonial ethics in human-alien relations.
Self-harm / suicide
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Depictions of suicidal ideation and emotional suffering related to grief and guilt.
Sexual assault
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Mentions of incest in family backstory; no on-page assault.
Abuse & suffering
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Domestic violence, toxic family dynamics, child neglect, and parental deaths; systemic suffering in colonial and alien contexts.
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