《Enders Game 2 - Speaker for the Dead 》作者：- Card_ Orson Scott

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Speaker for the Dead SPEAKER FOR THE DEAD For Gregg Keizer who already knew how Contents Introduction Some People of Lusitania Pronouncing Foreign Names Prologue 1. Pipo 2. Trondheim 3. Libo 4. Ender 5. Valentine 6. Olhado 7. The Ribeira House 8. Dona Ivanova 9. Congenital Defect 10. Children of the Mind 11. Jane 12. Files 13. Ela 14. Renegades 15. Speaking 16. The Fence 17. The Wives 18. The Hive Queen Introduction Speaker for the Dead is a sequel but it didnt begin life that way--and you dont have to read it that way either. It was my intention all alongfor Speaker to be able to stand alone for it to make sense whether you have read Enders Game or not. Indeed in my mind this was the “real”book if I hadnt been trying to write Speaker for the Dead back in I983 there would never have been a novel version of Enders Game at all. How did Speaker for the Dead come to be As with all my stories this one began with more than one idea. The concept of a “speaker forthe dead” arose from my experiences with death and funerals. I have written of this at greater length elsewhere suffice it to say that I grewdissatisfied with the way that we use our funerals to revise the life of the dead to give the dead a story so different from their actual life that ineffect we kill them all over again. No that is too strong. Let me just say that we erase them we edit them we make them into a person mucheasier to live with than the person who actually lived. I rejected that idea I thought that a more appropriate funeral would be to say honestly what that person was and what that person did. But tome “honesty” doesnt