![]() ![]() ![]() But to me, "honesty" doesn't simply mean saying all the unpleasant things instead of saying only the nice ones. I thought that a more appropriate funeral would be to say, honestly, what that person was and what that person did. Let me just say that we erase them, we edit them, we make them into a person much easier to live with than the person who actually lived. I have written of this at greater length elsewhere suffice it to say that I grew dissatisfied with the way that we use our funerals to revise the life of the dead, to give the dead a story so different from their actual life that, in effect, we kill them all over again. The concept of a "speaker for the dead" arose from my experiences with death and funerals. How did Speaker for the Dead come to be? As with all my stories, this one began with more than one idea. Indeed, in my mind this was the "real" book if I hadn't been trying to write Speaker for the Dead back in 1983, there would never have been a novel version of Ender's Game at all. It was my intention all along for Speaker to be able to stand alone, for it to make sense whether you have read Ender's Game or not. Speaker for the Dead is a sequel, but it didn't begin life that way-and you don't have to read it that way, either. ![]()
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