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“There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right voice, the right words in the right place can move the world.”

How I wish I had read this book as a kid!

Give it to your children. But make sure to give them the second book in the series too, if not the whole series.

Ender’s Game concerns a super-intelligent little boy and his struggles with foreign enemies abroad, and with bullies of all ages in his own society. But in the second book, Speaker for the Dead, Ender’s tale transforms into a deeper, more thoughtful, more humane story that’s especially relevant in late 2002. It poignantly illuminates issues of propaganda, war, racism and xenophobia without going anywhere near that pile of politically correct, regurgitated, happy horseshit that so much recent fiction rolls around in like a freshly-bathed sheepdog.

There was a pivotal plot point here that seemed implausible. Still, this very different second novel provides a brilliant complement and counterpoint to Ender’s Game. If you read the first book on its own, as I did years ago, you’re missing a lot. Read the sequel!

These are unique, insightful books and I think you’ll enjoy them even if you’re not a fan of science fiction or of war novels.