Speaker for the Dead

Speaker for the Dead (1986) is the second book in the Ender sextet written by Orson Scott Card. Card is a renowned American science fiction author and has won numerous awards for his writing, including four for Speaker of the Dead—the Hugo Award for Best Novel, the Nebula Award for Best Novel, the Science Fiction Chronicle Reader Award for Best Novel, and the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.

Speaker for the Dead is set 3,000 years after the events in Ender’s Game. Andrew Wiggin, also known as Ender the Xenocide and The Speaker for the Dead, is living on the planet Trondheim when he is called to speak for Pipo, a deceased xenologer, or alien anthropologist, who lived on Lusitania. Ender departs Trondheim, leaving his sister Valentine behind, and heads for Lusitania. Traveling at light speed, the trip takes only a few days of his life, though the immense distance means that he arrives on Lusitania 22 years after he was first called. He integrates into the Ribeira family, who called him to speak for three individuals, and he learns about the pequeninos—an intelligent, non-human species native to Lusitania—and their unique biology. Shortly after Ender arrives,

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