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The thrilling sequel to Ender's Game and winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awardsâ??this full cast unabridged recording includes an original postscript written and recorded by author Orson Scott Card. Three thousand years have passed since Ender Wiggin won humanity's war with the Buggers by totally destroying them. Ender remains young, traveling the stars at the speed of relativity, but a hundred years or more might pass on Earth while he experiences a month-long voyage. In three thousand years, Ender's books The Hive Queen and The Hegemon, written under a pseudonym, have become holy writ, while the name of Ender itself has become anathema: he is the Xenocide, the one who killed an entire race of thinking, feeling beings, killed the only other sapient race humankind had found in all the galaxy. The only ones, that is, until the planet called Lusitania was discovered and colonized. The discovery was seen as a gift to humanity, a chance to redeem the destruction of the Buggers. This time, the Starways Congress vowed, there would be no tragic misunderstanding leading to war. But once again men die, killed by the aliens in a rite no one understands. Ender, now known only as the Speaker for the Dead, comes to Lusitania to speak for those who have died and discovers that in order to tell the truth about them, he must unravel the secrets of Lusitania. Speaker for the Dead, the second novel in The Ender Saga, is the winner of the 1986 Nebula Award for Best Novel and the 1987 Hugo Award for Best Novel.… (mehr)
saltmanz: These two books have quite a lot in common: first contact, a Christian human colony, a group of scientists, moral dilemmas, sharply drawn characters, and even more that I won't get into for fear of spoilers. Both fantastic books.
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For Gregg Keizer who already knew how
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Since we are not yet fully comfortable with the idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it is presumptuous in the extreme to suppose we could ever look at sociable, tool-making creatures who arose from other evolutionary paths and see not beasts but brothers, not rivals but fellow pilgrims journeying to the shrine of intelligence.
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Only one rabbi dared to expect of us such a perfect balance that we could preserve the law and still forgive the deviation. So, of course, we killed him.
No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one’s life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.
Order and disorder, they each have their beauty.
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The sunlight on her back, the breeze against her wings, the water cool under her feet, her eggs warming and maturing in the flesh of the cabra: Life, so long waited for, and not until today could she be sure that she would be, not the last of her tribe, but the first.
The thrilling sequel to Ender's Game and winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awardsâ??this full cast unabridged recording includes an original postscript written and recorded by author Orson Scott Card. Three thousand years have passed since Ender Wiggin won humanity's war with the Buggers by totally destroying them. Ender remains young, traveling the stars at the speed of relativity, but a hundred years or more might pass on Earth while he experiences a month-long voyage. In three thousand years, Ender's books The Hive Queen and The Hegemon, written under a pseudonym, have become holy writ, while the name of Ender itself has become anathema: he is the Xenocide, the one who killed an entire race of thinking, feeling beings, killed the only other sapient race humankind had found in all the galaxy. The only ones, that is, until the planet called Lusitania was discovered and colonized. The discovery was seen as a gift to humanity, a chance to redeem the destruction of the Buggers. This time, the Starways Congress vowed, there would be no tragic misunderstanding leading to war. But once again men die, killed by the aliens in a rite no one understands. Ender, now known only as the Speaker for the Dead, comes to Lusitania to speak for those who have died and discovers that in order to tell the truth about them, he must unravel the secrets of Lusitania. Speaker for the Dead, the second novel in The Ender Saga, is the winner of the 1986 Nebula Award for Best Novel and the 1987 Hugo Award for Best Novel.
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Sprecher für die Toten
Ender überbrückt 3000 Jahren politischer und historischer Entwicklung durch den interstellaren Flug knapp unterhalb der Lichtgeschwindigkeit. Er ist mittlerweile Mitte dreißig und Sprecher für die Toten – Vertreter einer philosophischen Strömung mit religiösen Grundzügen. Die Geschichte hat über ihn fälschlich als Xenoziden, Vernichter der einzig bekannten Intelligenzwesen, neben der menschlichen Rasse gerichtet, und er muß seine Identität geheimhalten. Auf der Welt Lusitania wird zum ersten Mal seit der vermeintlichen Auslöschung der Krabbler intelligentes Leben entdeckt. Doch strikte Auflagen verbieten den Wissenschaftlern eine gezielte Erforschung der Pequeninos – „Schweinchen“, um ihre Entwicklung nicht ungebührend zu beeinflussen. Da ereignet sich ein grausamer Ritualmord an dem Xenologen Pipo. Sind die Schweinchen arglistige und sadistische Mörder? Ender reagiert auf den Ruf nach einem Sprecher für die Toten und macht sich auf den weiten Weg zur Welt Lusitania. Doch der Ruf wurde während seiner langen Reise zurück genommen. Er stößt bei den Siedlern auf Mißtrauen und Ablehnung.
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