Cover of The Speaker for the DeadB+
FinishedMarch 20, 2024
GradeB+
GenreScience Fiction
PublisherBIBLIO, 2003
★ Review · March 20, 2024

The Speaker for the Dead

by Orson Scott Card


Maybe I should give this an A-, but this book shows my issues with OSC—too much inner dialogue. Too much talking. Not enough action. Ender's Game had plenty of action with the war room. This is different. It's funny that OSC made a name for himself because of Ender's Game and it's an atypical book for him.

Publisher Description

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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