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user-inactivated  ·  4346 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What are your top 5 books?

Try To There Scattered Bodies Go by Philip José Farmer. Really the entire Riverworld series is great.

That said, how was Speaker of the Dead? I read Ender's Game and never got around to the sequels.





syncretic  ·  4346 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I liked the sequels more than Ender's Game, actually. In Speaker for the Dead, he is an adult, and traveling through time in hyperspace, from planet to planet, performing rights for the dead. Very good read, and an entirely different book than Ender's Game. In fact, I think the series keeps getting better as it progresses. Xenocide, the 3rd book in the series, is another of my sci-fi favorites.

akkartik  ·  4335 days ago  ·  link  ·  

As a contradictory sample point, I loved Ender's Game and Speaker and the Ender's Shadow series, but couldn't get through 5 chapters of Xenocide or the next sequel.