![]() ![]() Speaker for the Dead is very different from Ender’s Game in terms of the feel for the book. One of the issues of the recent comic adaptation. But things just didn’t work out that way. I’ve reread Ender’s Game at least 3 times now, intending to sink my teeth into the next book, Speaker for the Dead with as much intensity and vigor that the first book left me with. However, it has taken me years to actually continue reading the series. Ender’s Game helped spark my interest and love for science fiction, and my love for Card’s unique style of storytelling. I remember first reading Ender’s Game when I was 13ish and finding the story so compelling and haunting. I just recently began reading further into the Ender saga by Orson Scott Card, and quite honestly, it has been a substantial work to think and chew on. – Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card They might be intelligent, they might be self-aware, but we cannot know it.’ They live, but we cannot guess what purposes or causes make them act. The fourth is the true alien, the varelse, which includes all the animals, for with them no conversation is possible. The third is the raman, the stranger that we recognize as human, but of another species. The second is the framling…this is the stranger we recognize as human but of another world. ![]() ![]() The first is the otherlander, or utlanning, the stranger that we recognize as being a human of our world, but of another city or country. ‘The Nordic language recognizes four orders of foreignness. ![]()
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