Pipo works with his son, Libo, and a girl from the village who has taken the tests to become a xenobiologist at an early age. Pipo learns all he can from the alien race through observation, which is painfully little. Pipo is a good xenologer who struggles with the rules imposed on him by the Starways Congress to refrain from influencing the development of the piggy civilization. Pipo is one of the xenologers who has the great honor of studying the porquinhos, or piggies, who reside on the planet Luisitania. Speaker for the Dead is a novel of sin and redemption that will please sci-fi and mainstream fans alike. Ender himself learns of the murder and comes to the planet to investigate, revealing not only the truth about the alien race, but also revealing some hard to accept truths about the colonists who reside on the planet. However, the true trouble begins after one of those trusted to study the new aliens is found murdered in a disturbing way. The members of the Luisitania colony have been given permission to study this new race, but are forbidden to influence the evolution of the alien race. A new alien race has been discovered on a newly populated planet, Luisitania. Speaker for the Dead takes place several thousand years after the extermination of the alien race, the buggers. Speaker for the Dead is the sequel to Orson Scott Card's sci-fi adventure, Ender's Game.
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