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Speaker for the dead / Orson Scott Card

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : A Tom Doherty Associates Book, c1991Edition: First EditionDescription: xxx, 382 pages ; 17 cmISBN:
  • 9780812550757
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • FIC .C37s 1991
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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 by Portuguese colonists on the planet Lusitania. 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. Orson Scott Card infuses this tale with intellect by casting his characters in social, religious, and cultural contexts. This, the author's definitive edition of the sequel to Ender's Game, also includes an original postscript written and recorded by the author himself, Orson Scott Card!.
Item type: Books - Fiction
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Books - Fiction Books - Fiction National University - Manila LRC - Annex Fiction Fiction FIC .C37s 1991 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c.1 Available NULIB000008599

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.

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 by Portuguese colonists on the planet Lusitania. 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. Orson Scott Card infuses this tale with intellect by casting his characters in social, religious, and cultural contexts. This, the author's definitive edition of the sequel to Ender's Game, also includes an original postscript written and recorded by the author himself, Orson Scott Card!.

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