Forever Free and speaker for the dead
I have read two books, "Forever Free," by Joe Haldeman and "Speaker For the Dead," by Orson Scott Card. These two books, while differing in many ways have similar aspects of the plot. The writers with similar spontaneous writing styles depict life in the future in similar ways. Both books illustrate life on obscure, newly settled planets. On planets like this, in both books, compared to earth and older civilizations, is kind of third-world. "Forever free" has a more interesting plot and bolder, more complex character descriptions. "speaker For the Dead" unlike its enthralling predecessor "Enders Game" has a less interesting and semi uneventful plot. In each book the oldest people were highly respected and were thousands of years old due to faster than light speed travel. "Forever Free" Is a book about a group of space war vets who live on an ice planet without most of the modern technology available to people of more thickly populated, more advanced civilizations. All humans besides those in the colony on the ice planet have evolved into a genetically identical race collectively called "man." Man has a group mind in which individuals "tap in" to upload and download thoughts and memories. Also a part o this group mind is a very
"Speaker For the Dead" also contains an element of experimentation and observation which I'm sure you derived from the summary. In speaker for the dead there is an ongoing experiment of watching and observing the actions of the piggies. This experiment also goes wrong because the humans attempt not to influence the lifestyle of the piggies but somehow inadvertently disrupt the life balance and cause the piggies to kill a man. "Speaker For the Dead" is about a civilization of people who colonized a planet inhabited by an alien race which they call the "piggies." The town is inside a high fence and the people are not allowed to make contact with the piggies who live in the forest outside the gates. There are, however, three people who are allowed to make contact with the piggies for research and experimenting. These biologists are only allowed to study the piggies and take notes on paper. This is because any more active contact would disrupt their delicate ecosystem. One time when a biologist went alone outside the fence and disappeared. Later his body is found in the piggies woods, inside out with all the organs removed from it. After his death his wife calls Ender Wiggin to come and speak
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