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Speaker for the dead6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() Pipo depended on him-too much, probably-yet though Rooter clowned and played like the irresponsible youngling that he was, he also watched, probed, tested. He was always there whenever Pipo visited their clearing, and did his best to answer the questions Pipo was forbidden by law to come right out and ask. Rooter was at once the most difficult and the most helpful of the pequeninos. When we declare an alien species to be raman, it does not mean that they have passed a threshold of moral maturity. The difference between raman and varelse is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging. Since we are not yet fully comfortable with the idea that people from the next village are as human as ourselves, it is presumptuous in the extreme to suppose we could ever look at sociable, tool-making creatures who arose from other evolutionary paths and see not beasts but brothers, not rivals but fellow pilgrims journeying to the shrine of intelligence. And it is only the Speaker for the Dead, who is also Ender Wiggin the Xenocide, who has the courage to confront the mystery. Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but again the aliens' ways are strange and frightening. In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: The Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War. A Crash Course in the History of Black Science Fiction.200 Significant SF Books by Women, 1984-2001. ![]()
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