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Speaker for the Dead audiobook
- By: Orson Scott Card
- Narrator: David Birney
- Category: Fiction, Science Fiction, Space Opera
- Length: 14 hours 10 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: April 01, 2004
- Language: English
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Speaker for the Dead Audiobook Summary
The thrilling sequel to Ender’s Game and winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards–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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Speaker for the Dead Audiobook Narrator
David Birney is the narrator of Speaker for the Dead audiobook that was written by Orson Scott Card
David Birney has read a number of works for Theatreworks, NPR Playhouse and BBC dramatic recordings, including The Diary of Anne Frank, Star Wars, and Julius Caesar. His audiobook credits include narrating several Orson Scott Card books as well as reading for many AudioFile Earphones Award winning titles. Birney is also an award-winning actor and director. He has starred in many television films, among them Love and Betrayal, Long Journey Home, The Deadly Game, High Midnight, and The Champions. His extensive stage credits include starring roles on Broadway and major roles at the American Shakespeare Festival, New York’s Lincoln Center Repertory Theatre, the New York Shakespeare Festival, Los Angeles’ Mark Taper Forum, Washington, D.C.’s Shakespeare Theatre and numerous regional theatres.
About the Author(s) of Speaker for the Dead
Orson Scott Card is the author of Speaker for the Dead
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Speaker for the Dead Full Details
| Narrator | David Birney |
| Length | 14 hours 10 minutes |
| Author | Orson Scott Card |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Macmillan Audio |
| Release date | April 01, 2004 |
| ISBN | 9781593974770 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Speaker for the Dead is Macmillan Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Fiction, Science Fiction, Space Opera
Additional info
The publisher of the Speaker for the Dead is Macmillan Audio. The imprint is Macmillan Audio. It is supplied by Macmillan Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781593974770.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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