Musings of a Cynical Optimist

Amazing concept. Complex characters. It says something about the preconceived notions of humans. It speaks about our prejudices. It's an anthropological mystery. It's science fiction. It is human drama.
The idea of a real, live Speaker for the Dead has popped up all over the world. Following Orson Scott's Card's concept of speaking a person's life after death - in sometimes harsh and truthful terms - has caught on with many people and people have written to Card to tell him how they served as someone's Speaker during a funeral, or memorial. Pretty powerful concept. And none better to perform such a task than Ender Wiggen. The things he discovers on the planet where he goes to speak is beyond mind-blowing. Not in sci-fi technology- but in the ways and whys different species treat each other. Read it.