It's 3,000 years after Ender's Game, but due to the complexities of interstellar travel, we still have Ender, as a 35 year old man. Yay! He has become Speaker for the Dead, a position revered, and slightly feared, by this society. He is working at a University. Valentine is pregnant with her first baby, and he's looking forward to being an uncle. And then, he gets a call to speak the death of a researcher on the planet Lusitania. Much to Valentine's chagrin, he decides to go. The voyage takes on...

Beautiful production of the novel in graphic format, and again, tears flowed from my eyes in memory of such a beautiful tale.

This is my far the superior read over Ender's Game. This is a great story and fantastic next chapter to the series.

as graphic novel versions of the ender saga, this was decent. i guess i didn't expect too much since i wasn't blown away with the battle & command school graphic novels, though this was better. as always, the artwork is pretty incredible, but to fit all of this story into a graphic novel meant that the storytelling had to be truncated. things seemed to cut in and out, telling only the important parts of the tale. i do have to say that ender at 35 looks MUCH older, but then again, he's been throu...

The sequel to Ender's Game. In the introduction, the author notes that it’s so much harder to write a hero as an adult as opposed to an adolescent. It showed – Ender was a cerebral hero, but not the emotional hero I could cling to in Ender’s Game. The imagined races of creatures seem forced, and the conflict even more-so. But it is nothing if not creative, and the perspective it creates when you look at the whole and the parts of the alien ecosystems reminds me of what Carl Sagan used to sound l...

Expanding on the lore paved by Orson Scott Card. Speaker of the dead follows Ender Wiggin post the 3rd Formic war. The universe is at figurative peace, yet all is not well with Ender. The sheer weight of a species extinction by his unknowing direct hand, has taken it toil on the now battled harden "child". Speaker of the dead is a redemptive love note to Ender's Game, an allegory of one's true nature over perceived reputation. Prominently it is about Ender and his sister Valentine. An adventure

While there were interesting and thought provoking parts, I felt all-in-all uninspired by this one. The reader couldn't quite get into the main character's mind like they could in Ender's Game. Creating a sequel with such little investment in the previous book is a risky way to go. I wanted to feel more of a connection with the Ender I knew. I wanted the first story to matter more. If someone really wanted to read this book, but they felt like they had to read them in order...this is an example

This is a very solid work of sci-fi. Very interesting story. I enjoyed it. I probably won't read the other 3 in the series, but I enjoyed the first 2 enough!

This was a very interesting book in many ways - it binds the social sciences with the hard science of space travel, or perhaps science fiction as it stands today. The worlds that he creates before our eyes are incredibly real. My only criticism is that all the story lines are tied up neatly as the story ends. It's as if he finished the book with the speaking of the dead speech, then spends the rest of the time completing each story arc. These are still interesting but feels a little formulaic. T...

I really, really liked this book! From the beggining Ender acts and feels much more mature, but Valentine seemed further more childish. Still do not like her. Well let's go into the book...[image error](view spoiler)[Loved Quim's comparison of the piggies third live with the ressurrection of Christ. It was awesome! (hide spoiler)]And finally, I have no simpathy for Libo AT ALL. (view spoiler)[Or for Novinha. I wish Ender didn't marry her. Once a cheater, always a cheater... (hide spoiler)]["br"]...

I enjoyed this graphic novel a lot more than the regular book version of Ender's Game. It is a lot easier to explain complicated sci-fi ideas in graphic form versus in print, at least in my opinion. The graphic novel is set about twenty-two years after the first book, and Ender is now a Speaker for the Dead, one that tells the truth about a dead person's life. While Ender's only aged an additional 22 years, because of light-speed travel, it is now 3500 years in the future. He is called to the re...

This regards the Marvel adaptation, not the novel.Far too much of the novel was cut out, and I suspect that if I was not familiar with the story I couldn't have followed this. Consider that the Ender's Game adaptation was collected in ten issues. I always felt that Speaker for the Dead was more involved and more complicated overall than its prequel, yet the adaptation is half the length. The Piggies' culture is glossed over; you get a tiny bit about their life cycle in the end but that's it. The...

I have not read beyond The Speaker for the Dead, but this book, both in Card's words in the introduction and through the writing on the pages, is the defining work of this story-line. As I read through the book I wondered how and if my reading of this as well as Ender's Game would be different if I had picked Speaker up first. Ender's Game does not stand alone. While Ender's Game feels like a skeleton (which it is when seen in the light of The Speaker for the Dead) Speaker has sufficient depth a...

Winner of Hugo AND Nebula?! I was like, Count me in! But I should've read the prose version... I was told so many good things about this novel, but I went in for the graphic novel to get a quick recap of the plot. And that's pretty much what I got. A quick perusal into Wikipedia also shows that some subplots have been nixed (Valentine's arrival in Lusitania, hello?).This story stands more on an emotional arc that maybe didn't translate well into the visual form. And I read that OSC himself said

Tavion Johnson 11-29-11 4th hour Book ReviewEnder was born in a family that was very highly educated people. They family was daft to military and their job is to save the world from destruction. Ender had a very special power it was a monitor that’s allows the military see things as Ender moves. Ender has brother and a sister his brother Peter hate him because he is a third and the military plan on making him a leader, his sister Valentine both of them had monitor and

This is the sequel to "Enders Game" which is currently holding first place in all lists for best Sci-Fi Novel of all time. I must admit that 'Ends Game' did live up to the buildup. i could not put it down.So, of course I'm going to continue with this series, so I got the other three books and delved into "Speaker For The Dead". I really do not like to spoil the story for readers who want to read the book, so I will talk in generalities. Card introduces a couple new species of beings on a distant...

Not as exciting as Ender's Game, but it deals with some interesting themes. I particularly liked how it addressed the concern any Star Trek fan will recognize as "the prime directive" - whether or not to disturb/taint a new species with information/technology/aid from one's own world. Card's take on this is so much deeper and blows Roddenberry's away.Of course there's always Ender to love--who wouldn't? To me the fact that he was an adult didn't hamper the story in any way. I also liked the char...

I was astounded at how much I enjoyed this graphic novel. I liked it so much, in fact, I wished it was a bit longer. The art is awesome. The characters were well developed (although the Piggy character Human was a tad underdeveloped - whereas Jane was well represented). I don't like the depiction of the Formics (still buggers to those that have not delved into this new generation of the Ender Universe), but that is personal preference. Truth be told, I wasn't a big fan of the original Speaker fo...

Why does my brother even own this?ANYWAY. This surprisingly works well as a comic because, let's be real, the actual novel was too preachy and could use some streamlining; it's just that I wish the graphic novel were thicker, but ha, beggars, choosers, etc. Nitpicks: Jane's character design feels too girlish and a little lazy, while Ender looks too old (he's supposed to be only 35 here, and I remember that his youth was an issue to a lot of characters in the novel, but I get that it's not an iss...

Just read this book. Was a good read. A sequel to Enders Game, so Ender figured in it and figured nicely in it. Now he's no longer the ruthless bloodstained hero but the face of compassion and understanding. Apparently these are two sides of the same coin which is a dynamic that is expounded on in the book, pretty convincingly actually and it makes Ender all the more endearing. I like the whole sciency hook to the story, the mysticism surrounding the piggies, an alien tribe. This development was...