The novel “Speaker for the Dead” by Orson Scott Card was published for the first time in 1986. It’s the second book in the Ender’s Game series and follows “Ender’s Game”. It won the Hugo and Nebula Awards as the best novel of the year.

Pipo is a xenologist who studies the sentient alien species that was discovered on the planet Lusitania. The rules regarding his work are very strict, so he can have limited contact and above all exchanges with those who are familiarly called pigs. When Pipo is killed by the pigs for incomprehensible reasons, his son Libo continues the work but Novinha, who used to be Pipo’s apprentice, has secreted crucial information on the affair.

Andrew “Ender” Wiggin is a Speaker for the Dead and receives via ansible Novinha’s request to write an elegy for Pipo. When he discovers the story of the pigs of Lusitania, he realizes that for him, it’s the opportunity to make amends for his past and find a new home for the queen of the Formics he has been carrying with him for a long time. When he arrives on Lusitania, Ender discovers that Libo has also been killed by the pigs.