Speaker for the Dead is a 1986 science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card and an indirect sequel to a novel that came out in which year ?
Ender's Game Ender's Game is a 1985 military science fiction novel by American author Orson Scott Card. Set in Earth's future, the novel presents an imperiled mankind after two conflicts with the "buggers", an insectoid alien species. In preparation for an anticipated third invasion, children, including the novel's protagonist, Ender Wiggin, are trained from a very young age through increasingly difficult games including some in zero gravity, where Ender's tactical genius is revealed.
The Ascension Factor The Ascension Factor (1988) is the fourth and final science fiction novel set in the by the American author Frank Herbert and poet Bill Ransom. It takes place about twenty five years after "The Lazarus Effect". It completes the story of the humans descended from those left by the Voidship Earthling on the planet Pandora approximately 480 years earlier.