{"product_id":"speaker-for-the-dead-9781593974763","title":"Speaker for the Dead","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe thrilling sequel to Enders Game and winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awardsthis 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 humanitys 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  Enders 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 Quintet  is the winner of the 1986 Nebula Award for Best Novel and the 1987 Hugo Award for Best Novel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45652129710133,"sku":"ByrdShop_1593974760","price":109.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781593974763.jpg?v=1781849373","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/speaker-for-the-dead-9781593974763","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}