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Childhood's End
Arthur C. Clarke
1953
Speaker for the Dead
Orson Scott Card · 1986
382 pages
Years after the war against the Formics, Andrew Wiggin travels as a Speaker for the Dead, revealing the truth of the departed. On the colony world Lusitania he is drawn into the fate of a human family and the alien Pequeninos, whose customs hide a terrible secret.
Tropes
First Contact, Philosophical, Forbidden Knowledge, Found Family, Redemption Arc
