Speaker for the Dead
Ender Wiggin, the young military genius, discovers that a second alien war is inevitable and that he must dismiss his fears to make peace with humanity's strange new brothers.
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- I like Jane from Speaker for the Dead, etc.. by Orson Scott Card
- Fiction: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas (English translation by Chapman & Hall).
Non-fiction: Fermat's Last Theorem by Simon Singh.
Previous fiction: Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card. Loved Ender's Game when I was younger, but for some reason never picked this up. It's brilliant, even better than Ender's.
Previous non-fiction: Endurance by Alfred Lansing. Well, I couldn't put it down. What a book.
- I thought this would at least mention 'Speaker for the Dead' by Orson Scott Card somewhere?
- For cult sci fi classics you can't get much better than "Stars My Destination" by Alfred Bester. Other goodies include Dune (of course), Gateway, and The Forever War.
I also recently read Speaker For The Dead (sequel to Enders Game) and was pleasantly surprised. Possibly better than the original.
A sibling comment mentions Tchaikovsky which I strongly concur with.
- Speaker For The Dead - Orson Scott Card
- Speaker for the Dead is good, but the series starts to get a bit... weird. Fairly religious, although still in a space-y way. Maybe that was just my middle school take and I should re-read it.
Ender's Shadow (Ender's Game from Bean's perspective) is also excellent.
