Ender's Game · Book 2
Speaker for the Dead
- Published
- 1 March 1986
- Pages
- 415
- ISBN-13
- 9780812513509
- Type
- novel
About this book
Speaker for the Dead followed in March 1986, the second book at 415 pages, jumping the timeline forward to find an adult Ender, now travelling under a different name, investigating the death of an alien species on a distant colony world.
Its place in Ender's Game
Speaker for the Dead is book 2 in the Ender's Game series. It follows Ender's Game. It is followed by Xenocide. See the full Ender's Game reading order.
Andrew "Ender" Wiggin is six years old when he's recruited into Battle School, an orbiting military academy built to find and train the child who can save humanity from a third invasion by the alien "Buggers." Ender is a prodigy the adults running the program are willing to isolate, manipulate and break in order to shape into a commander — and the story is as much about what that does to a brilliant, lonely child as it is about the tactical war games he keeps winning. The final twist of Ender's Game…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780356501857
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9788498729856
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780792738077