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An edition of Speaker for the Dead (1986)

Speaker for the dead

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Ender Wiggin, the hero and scapegoat of mass alien destruction in Ender's Game, receives a chance at redemption in this novel. Ender, who proclaimed as a mistake his success in wiping out an alien race, wins the opportunity to cope better with a second race, discovered by Portuguese colonists on the planet Lusitania.

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Tor
Language
English, Russian
Pages
382

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Reading Level-Grade 9 Reading Level-Grade 8 Reading Level-Grade 11 Reading Level-Grade 10 Reading Level-Grade 12 Comics & graphic novels, science fiction Wiggin, ender (fictitious character), fiction Lusitania (imaginary place), fiction Fiction, science fiction, hard science fiction Fiction, fantasy, epic Fiction Extraterrestrial beings American Science fiction Science fiction Roman Science-fiction nyt:mass-market-paperback=2013-11-24 New York Times bestseller award:nebula_award=novel Hugo Award Winner award:hugo_award=1987 award:hugo_award=novel Space warfare Interplanetary voyages Guerre spatiale Romans, nouvelles Voyages interplanétaires Ke xue huan xiang xiao shuo Zhang pian xiao shuo Ender Wiggin (Fictitious character) Atonement Human-alien encounters Life on other planets Genocide American Fantasy fiction Imaginary places

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Voz de Los Muertos
2019-06, B
in Spanish
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Si zhe dai yan ren: Speaker for the dead
2017, Zhe jiang wen yi chu ban she
in Chinese - Di 1 ban
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La Voix des morts
2002, J'ai lu
Mass Market Paperback in French
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La voix des morts
1999, Ed. J'ai lu
Texte imprimé / in French
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Speaker for the Dead
1994, Tom Doherty Associates, Inc.
in English - Author's preferred ed., rev. mass market ed.
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Speaker for the dead
1994, Tor
in English and Russian
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Speaker for the dead
1992, Legend
in English
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Speaker for the Dead
1991, Tor
Paperback in English
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Speaker for the Dead
1987, Tor
Paperback in English and Hebrew
Cover of: Speaker for the Dead
Speaker for the Dead
1987, Tor
Paperback in English

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Library of Congress
PS3553.A655 S67 1986, PS3553.A655 S67 1991, PS3553.A655 S67 1992

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL28230793M
ISBN 10
0812550757
ISBN 13
9780812550757
LCCN
85051765, 91012324
OCLC/WorldCat
51680989, 51284653, 762828872

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OL49580W

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Ender Wiggin, the young military genius, discovers that a second alien war is inevitable and that he must dismiss his fears to make peace with humanity's strange new brothers.

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