My favorite quote From Ender Wiggin: “The truth is a beautiful and terrible thing, and therefore should be treated with great caution.”The story is deep and complex and takes a completely different angle from book one “Ender’s Game” and the author does say that he wanted this sequel to stand alone. After Ender destroys the “buggers”, he and his sister Valentine decide to space travel and discover other worlds. Speaker for the dead is one who tells the truth about the life of the deceased. We are introduced to all new characters. I did not like the book because even though the story is imaginative and has some interesting characters, it is mired in religious theology. I did like Card’s comparison of the discovery of intelligent life on another planet with the European explorers encountering the natives of South America .
Speaker has a lot of great characteristics and does bring up important issues such as, discrimination, guilt, redemption, compassion, and the power of truth but its religious tone makes me very uncomfortable. I enjoyed the philosophical aspect and still love the Ender character but wanted to see it developed a lot more.
A new world is discovered, and with it - the piggies, an unknown primitive race. Luisitania is colonized by humans who are restricted to minimum interaction. When the piggies, the natives of Luisitania and the only other being found since the buggers, kill the lead scientist the other worlds begin to fear that they are dangerous. Andrew Ender Wiggin is called to speak the scientist’s death.
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