Speaker For The Dead is the second book in the “Ender” series by Orson Scott Card. It follows “Ender’s Game” – but, really, it’s a very different book. Again, warning: spoilers abound!
It’s now 3,000 years since the events in the first book. Due to the intricacies of time dilation at lightspeed travel, Ender is still [...]
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Speaker For The Dead (Orson Scott Card) Review
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card – Review
Ender’s Game is one of those classics of Science Fiction that I had never got around to reading, but now I’m glad I did.
The story is set in a fantastical future in which the human race is struggling to avoid overcrowding and is just getting over a war with a race of insect-like creatures nicknamed [...]
Bad Science Review – Ben Goldacre
There are a lot of misconceptions in science – mostly fueled by the mass media. Some of this is just plain wrong, while others can even be dangerous.
Most of this pseudoscience – that is, theories that are cloaked in scientific-sounding explanations or extrapolated from honest research but misinterpreted. Some of this has seeped into the [...]
