Speaker for the Dead Audiobook Free Online By Orson Scott Card
Speaker for the Dead is the second book in the Ender’s Game series by renowned author Orson Scott Card. The content of this 2nd book is that after his terrible fight, Ender Wiggin disappears and a powerful voice appears, who tells the true story of the Bugger War. New aliens have appeared by the Portuguese people.
Scary and strange new aliens, once again humans must die. How will Ender Wiggin the Xenocide deal with the aliens? We invite you to join us for the next chapter in this fascinating book.
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Review 1: Speaker for the Dead Audiobook by Michael Wise
In a Word this book, is as humanistic as ever could be a book that I’ve ever read. Admittedly that’s not very much, but I will say it does not read like a textbook. It is a story of two consciousness coming together and mutual understanding in complete and total symbiosis. If you are a cynic, this book is most certainly not for you. If on the other hand you are an optimist, and have the purest hope that humans can achieve a symbiotic relationship with another species that is as conscious as we are of ourselves and our own self importance and survival then you may like it as much as I do.
Review 2: Speaker for the Dead Audiobook by Christopher R
I do not understand why, with the popularity of the first book, this one has so few reviews. In my opinion, this book is much stronger. While the first book does devote time towards dealing with themes that have managed to remain relevant long after its initial publication, this book goes into more detail exploring much more compelling questions.
In “Ender’s Game,” most of the book is devoted to Ender’s time in the Battle School. What we read about there is Ender’s transition from little boy on Earth, a Third who experiences a difficult life on a planet experiencing societal difficulties, going off to train in the business of war. While it is an arduous physical journey for Ender, and he does have some difficulty with psychological issues such as separation from family, learning how to compromise his ethics in order to survive, and learning how to lead other people, those psychological issues seemed secondary for much of the book. Only at the end of the first story are we introduced with the psychological significance of what Ender was compelled to do.
That is why I do not understand the apparent lack of people making the transition over to this, the follow-up. All of the big questions seemed to hang out there, dangling like a teaser at the end. How could anyone not continue on to see how Ender would cope with his xenocide, especially since it is revealed at the end of that book that a hive queen survived and was communicating with Ender? How could they not continue on to see how his colony had turned out, how humanity had turned out after moving forward from the society Peter had left behind?
All of these important questions are explored in “Speaker for the Dead,” and they are handled really well. The concept of a Speaker for the Dead is fascinating, especially in the context of Ender’s story. Here is a boy who was essentially tricked into killing off an entire intelligent species, just to find that he had an opportunity for redemption. First Ender writes the Hive Queen and the Hegemon, turning his own name into an epithet. The humanity that once loved him as their savior has turned their back on him, casting him off as the personification of evil. Later this redemption continues as Ender takes on the role of Speaker, teaching people that, as is explained in the book, good and evil both exist in the same heart. He essentially primes people for understanding what he did, his actions and his motivations, hoping that one day he would earn his redemption. “Here is the good, here is the bad. No judgement. Just the truth.”
At first the fast forward three thousand years into the future seems ridiculous, but as the book continues it begins to make more sense. We get to see a society that seems to have taken Ender’s lessons in the Hive Queen and the Hegemon to heart, but as we learn in the book humanity only seems to have learned that lesson because it was convenient. The true test comes when they encounter another sentient species. Ender has changed, but has humanity really changed, even after three thousand years?
In this book humanity gets another chance, this time with the benefit of hindsight. Will they repeat their mistakes, or learn from them and handle things better this time around? That is one of the central questions that is answered in this book. The answer is made clear by the end of this book, so I will not spoil it in my review.
The concept of the Hierarchy of Foreignness is also fascinating. Anyone who has spent any time considering interaction with other species will be compelled by this story. I know people of my generation have seen Cosmos, and likely remember the scene where Carl Sagan discusses the problems we would face when interacting with alien intelligent life. To paraphrase: “We can’t even interact with the other intelligent life on our own planet.” And then closer to today we have Stephen Hawking’s speculation on how alien races would treat us if they encountered us first. Anyone who has seen these things and engaged in any thought experiment will be compelled by this story as they read about individuals and a society struggle with determining where the piggies and buggers fall on this hierarchy.
Maybe because we live in a time with no space operas on television, young people are not drawn to these ethical questions as much as those of us who grew up on shows like Star Trek. We watched stories about humanity struggling against its worst impulses to be the people that they wanted to be. So reading such a story seems pretty natural, and darn entertaining. That is why I find “Speaker for the Dead” so much more compelling than “Ender’s Game.” It is also why I find the reviews bemoaning the lack of “action” of the first book. Ender does not need to cave a Bonzo’s nose into his brain in every book in order for significant, compelling action to have taken place. “Speaker for the Dead” has actions in spades, as complex characters evolve and change in response to the events that they encounter. You should not be disappointed by this book.
Review 3: Speaker for the Dead Audiobook by Jenn
This is quite a different read than Ender’s Game. If you’re looking for action packed, space war bugger demolition, this isn’t it. It reads like a great character exploration book. At first, to be honest, I didn’t like it. I didn’t like that Ender was a background character and these new people weren’t that exciting. By the middle of the book I was gripping the pages in excitement. Things been to unfold fast and I liked that the pace picked up. I was crying at some points, angry and in the end left with the same feeling that I had when I finished Ender’s Game…I couldn’t wait to start the next book in the series. Don’t hesitate, it’s a good read if you stick with it and leave your expectations from EG on the side.
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