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Speaker For The Dead (1987)

Part of the The Ender Quintet series , book 2

Speaker For The Dead (1987)

by Card, Orson Scott

Humans, pequinios, and the Hive Queen must find a way to live together.

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Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card won the 1987 Nebula Award for Best Novel

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Card, Orson Scott

Card, Orson Scott

Orson Scott Card is an American writer known best for his science fiction works. As of 2024, he is the only person to have won a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award in consecutive years, winning both awards for his novel Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel Speaker for the Dead (1986). A feature film adaptation of Ender's Game, which Card coproduced, was released in 2013. Card also wrote the Locus Fantasy Award-winning series The Tales of Alvin Maker (1987–2026). Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card

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