{"product_id":"speaker-for-the-dead-paperback","title":"Speaker for the Dead - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThree thousand years after the xenocide, Ender Wiggin is called to speak the death of a man on a world that doesn't know who he is.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eShelf note: Our favorite first-contact novel, and you don't need to have read Ender's Game to love it.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHumanity has found a second sentient species: the pequeninos, the \"piggies\" of the forest world Lusitania. Contact is strictly limited, because everyone remembers what happened the last time humans met an alien race.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen a xenologer is found dead in the forest, killed by the piggies in a ritual nobody understands. And a Speaker for the Dead is summoned across the light-years to tell the truth of the man's life. The Speaker, unknown to anyone on Lusitania, is the same boy who destroyed an entire species and has spent three millennia trying to atone for it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCard has said this is the book he actually wanted to write, and that \u003cem\u003eEnder's Game\u003c\/em\u003e was the runway to get here. It's a quieter, stranger, more adult novel, less about war than about the impossibility and necessity of understanding a mind unlike your own. It won both the Hugo and the Nebula, making Card the first author to take both awards in consecutive years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Orson Scott Card\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSeries:\u003c\/strong\u003e The Ender Saga, Book 2\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781250773067\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAwards:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hugo Award, Nebula Award\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Tor Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67967237685447,"sku":"9781250773067","price":17.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/0741\/9335\/files\/9781250773067.jpg?v=1792520343","url":"https:\/\/spineboundbooks.com\/products\/speaker-for-the-dead-paperback","provider":"Spinebound Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}