Speaker for the Dead
“Sickness and healing are in every heart; death and deliverance in every hand.” - Orson Scott Card
I’m rereading the Ender’s Game series by Orson Scott Card. Currently on book 2, Speaker for the Dead. It’s a very different book than the first. Ender’s Game is unabashedly about destruction. About survival. About all the ways in which we justify the means to satisfy an end. Speaker for the Dead is then its counter point. It’s about redemption, making a…
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