Book Review: Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card

The sequel to Ender’s Game, Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card was quite dissimilar from its predecessor. This was likely because the novel takes a more traditional approach to storytelling and features adult characters, instead of children. To control Earth’s population and spread life around the galaxies, the Starways Congress has colonized one hundred habitable …

Book Review: Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

The only novel I’ve ever loved better than a Harry Potter book, Ender’s Game is my number-one favorite novel. Author Orson Scott Card thrusts us into a future in which humanity is threatened by an alien society, known as “the Buggers” (they resemble giant insects). The Buggers have attacked the earth twice already, so the government …