num_pages: 382
description: Now available in mass market, the revised, definitive edition of the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning classic. In this second book in the saga set 3,000 years after the terrible war, Ender Wiggin is reviled by history as the Xenocide--the destroyer of the alien Buggers. Now, Ender tells the true story of the war and seeks to stop history from repeating itself. ...In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: The Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War.Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but again the aliens' ways are strange and frightening...again, humans die. And it is only the Speaker for the Dead, who is also Ender Wiggin the Xenocide, who has the courage to confront the mystery...and the truth.Speaker for the Dead, the second novel in Orson Scott Card's Ender Quintet, is the winner of the 1986 Nebula Award for Best Novel and the 1987 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
language: English
title: Speaker for the Dead
titlecomplete: Speaker for the Dead (Ender's Saga, #2)
characters: Andrew Wiggin
genres: Audiobook, Aliens, Novels, Science Fiction, Young Adult, Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction Fantasy, Space, Space Opera
ratings_count: 249678
series: Enderverse:  Publication Order, The Enderverse, Ender's Saga
awards: awardedAt: 536486400000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 504950400000
name: Nebula Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 536486400000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Science Fiction Novel, awardedAt: 599644800000
name: Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis
category: Foreign Novel, awardedAt: 536486400000
name: John W. Campbell Memorial Award
category: Best Science Fiction Novel, awardedAt: 536486400000
name: SF Chronicle Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Prix Cosmos 2000
publisher: Tor Books