![]() ![]() But it’s pretty indirect, as sequels go, taking place 3,000 years after its predecessor, with all of the original characters presumed dead. Speaker for the Dead, the second novel in The Ender Saga, is the winner of the 1986 Nebula Award for Best Novel and the 1987 Hugo Award for Best. Speaker for the Dead is undoubtedly a sequel to Ender’s Game, and it does reference the events of the first book (including spoiling the ending, so don’t read this one first). ![]() Even if my math is horribly horribly painfully wrong and full of guesswork, 3k years is a mere hardware with relativity to play with. The thrilling sequel to Enders Game and winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awardsthis full cast unabridged recording includes an original postscript written and recorded by author Orson Scott Card. I'm going to guess 3k years is nothing to what he could have sincerely aged if he had pushed himself to travel more often given he is 35 years old in his own relative experienced time. So about 12 years at lightspeed is actually more like 1376571.48 years. ![]() Having been jumping from plant to planet and never spending more than a year anywhere since Ender was 11/12, he's spent, let's say, half that time at lightspeed. Going by the suggestion that one week on board is 22 years in relative time, which means our time is, to round up to the second decimal, 114714.29 times that of the speed they are traveling. Outside that bubble of extreme time, the world passes much slower. ![]() Imagine if you will traveling lightspeed, while the universe continues at its normal speed. The times go out …more Relativity is a hell of a drug my friend. Jason Relativity is a hell of a drug my friend. ![]()
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