Nancy S. (raney) reviewed on 4/21/2011 + 16 more book reviews

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Following up on a theme in Ender's Game, Card explores the concept of alien and alienation. How can we judge an alien race without understanding its culture and evolution? Card suggests we can't hold it to human standards and not every evil human act would be evil if done by an alien.

Interesting and sympathetic to all its characters, even those who don't behave in a way we would admire in any other book, Speaker For the Dead is not just a continuation of Ender Wiggin's saga. I was pleasantly surprised to find Ender in very different circumstances, doing very different things, allowing Card to write a very different story from his first Ender book.

Terrific read.

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