Novinha puts an interstellar space call out for a Speaker for the Dead to tell the story of Pipo's life. Anyway, because of stupid laws or poor plotting, Novinha can't marry Libo. But, if Libo marries her, as her husband he'll have access to her files because apparently in the future married people aren't allowed to have privacy. Novinha decides no one can ever know what she found, so she locks it away in her files. Then she tells Pipo something and he figures out something about the mysterious piggies and runs off to talk to the piggies about it the piggies torture and kill him, and nobody knows why. Novinha grows close to Pipo and romantically involved with Libo. Bummer for Novinha.īut the one bummer is not sufficient. Novinha's parents were the colony's xenobiologists, and they found a cure for the Descolada, but not in time to save themselves. The xenologists who study the piggies directly are Pipo, Libo, and a young, angry, alienated girl named Novinha whose parents died from a Lusitania virus known as the Descolada. We start on Lusitania, a small human Catholic colony devoted to studying the piggies-or pequeninos-the first intelligent aliens discovered since Ender killed the buggers. Oh right-and Ender has done lots of space travel speaking for the dead on different planets, and thanks to the tricks of relativity, that means that three thousand years have passed for most people even though Ender is still in his 30s. You can read a complete Shmoopy summary of Ender's Game over thisaway if you'd like, but Ender = awesome = guilty should get you through the bulk of Speaker. (2) Ender is really sorry and guilty about killing lots of buggers, which makes him sympathetic and also somehow even more awesome than before. So, two points: (1) Ender is fifteen times better than the best thing you can think of, and Orson Scott Card loves him, and if you don't love him too this book is going to be a long hard slog. But people don't realize super-awesome-dude Speaker for the Dead and xenocidal-evil-monster Ender are the same single impossibly awesome guy. So now everybody thinks Ender is the world's greatest awesomest saintliest cool guy for writing about the buggers, and the most nefarious evil dude for killing all the buggers.
Then he proved himself the greatest writer in history by taking the name "The Speaker for the Dead" and writing the story of the buggers's Hive Queen and making everyone sorry that Ender had killed the aliens in the first place. In Ender's Game, Ender proved himself the greatest warrior in history by destroying the marauding alien buggers. Speaker for the Dead Summary Ender's Game, or The Summary Before You Get to the Summary
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