Pre-Owned Speaker for the Dead (Audiobook) by David Birney, Orson Scott Card, Stefan Rudnicki

from lbspen

There are so many formulaic science fiction books out there, most push the boundaries of current technology and knowledge in predictable ways. Speaker for the Dead is refreshingly original even 15 years after its publication date. Though the book had a slow start, and the family at the center of ...

from mairz

The concept of this book is a lot deeper than the first book of the series, Ender's Game. This book takes place on a planet far from Earth with Ender as an adult travelling through time and space with only his ship and an egg as company. He travels to this alien planet that humans have tried to l...

from aethercowboy

Some 3000 years after Ender's Game, Ender, now Andrew, Wiggin is still alive due to the relativity of space travel. Now relatively 35 years old, he travels to a world containing a minimally diverse xenological biosphere. The colony established there refer to their world as Lusitania, named in hon...

from LisaMaria_C

Years ago, when I first read the original Ender's trilogy, I found it awesome. Reading it years later after knowing more about the author and his views, I find I'm reading different books. Reading these, I'm struck that books aren't just the creation of their authors--they're collaborations betwe...

from RJohnDonahue

Truly a lasting work that leaves me speechless, and ready for Xenocide (Ender, Book 3). I've read nothing like it since the Dune Series, with its crucial religious, anthropological, biological, cultural, psychological, sociological, and political layers each deliciously complicating the plot and ...