Lucas Stoffel

Leviathan Wakes launches The Expanse with space opera, noir detective fiction, and alien body horror. The best space opera of the century. Five stars. Book Review.

Speaker for the Dead: it's not a sequel to Ender's Game. Not really. It shares a protagonist and a timeline, but it's a completely different kind of book. Ender's Game is a military science fiction novel about a child prodigy fighting an alien war. Speaker for the Dead is a slow, philosophical novel about a middle-aged man trying to understand an alien species by telling the truth about the dead. The fact that the same author wrote both of these is genuinely remarkable.