Speaker for the Dead
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Synopsis
The book follows a family on the Catholic colony planet Lusitania and centers around the xenologers who find an intelligent porcine alien race there which does some (to them) bizarre things. In a manner that I won't spoil, Ender is entwined into the story.
Review
I like Speaker for the dead better than Ender's Game. There are more major characters, which is good, but also many more minor characters, which I didn't like. But the porcine alien race, which the inhabitants of Lusitania call pequeninos, were interesting enough to save the book for me. I also think Ender is an excellent speaker, and he's a likeable character.
Table of contents
- Introduction
- Some People of Lusitania Colony
- Pronouncing Foreign Names
- Prologue
- 1. Pipo
- 2. Trondheim
- 3. Libo
- 4. Ender
- 5. Valentine
- 6. Olhado
- 7. The Ribeira House
- 8. Dona Ivanova
- 9. Congenital Defect
- 10. Children of the Mind
- 11. Jane
- 12. Files
- 13. Ela
- 14. Renegades
- 15. Speaking
- 16. The Fence
- 17. The Wives
- 18. The Hive Queen