Speaker for the Dead

Synopsis

Three thousand planet-bound years have fled while Ender the star-traveler remains young. In those long years the name of Ender has become anathema -- for he is the Xenocide, the one who killed an entire race of thinking, feeling beings. No other sapient race has been found in all the galaxy -- until the planet Lusitania is discovered. There is encountered a young intelligent race just beginning to lift its eyes to the stars. This is a gift to mankind -- a chance to redeem the previous destruction. And so this race, "the piggies," is placed off-limits. The only humans allowed to meet them are trained xenobiologists. This time there will be no tragic misunderstandings... But this time, again, men die, bizarrely killed by the piggies. Andrew Wiggin arrives on Lusitania to speak the deaths of two xenobiologists, and walks into a maelstrom of fear and hatred. He must now unravel a web of secrets...