![]() ![]() The concept of a "speaker for the dead" arose from my experiences with death and funerals. How did Speaker for the Dead come to be? As with all my stories, this one began with more than one idea. Indeed, in my mind this was the "real" book if I hadn't been trying to write Speaker for the Dead back in 1983, there would never have been a novel version of Ender's Game at all. It was my intention all along for Speaker to be able to stand alone, for it to make sense whether you have read Ender's Game or not. Speaker for the Dead is a sequel, but it didn't begin life that way-and you don't have to read it that way, either. ![]() This is when the characters (we know and love) came into existence. What he needed was to turn his original story into a novel all its own. And it needed more "fleshing" than just a simple prologue or chapter could do. The story needed to be fleshed out before this new novel could work. And then it came to him, what if the Speaker was Ender! What if he used one of his *old* characters, and gave him a new story. He thought and worked and thought and worked. Although, at the time the Speaker was a Singer. Orson Scott Card was working on ideas for a new novel, and the basic premise of Speaker for the Dead came to him. You see, Ender's Game started out as a story- a short story. But in many ways, it is even more instrumental than Ender's Game. Speaker for the Dead is the sequel to Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card. Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card. ![]()
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