Item from enders-game by Orson Scott Card
An anonymous book written by 'Speaker for the Dead' that told the Formics' story from their perspective — it changed how humanity understood the xenocide and created a new religion of truth-telling.
'The Hive Queen' is the most important book in the Enderverse — an anonymous work that told the story of the Formic Wars from the Formics' perspective. It revealed that the Formics had stopped attacking after the Second Invasion because they finally realized humans were sentient individuals, not extensions of a hive mind. They hadn't known. They would have stopped. But humans launched the Third Invasion before learning this. The book transformed the Formics from 'Buggers' into a tragic species destroyed by misunderstanding. It made Ender 'the Xenocide' in public consciousness. It spawned the 'Speaker for the Dead' movement — truth-tellers who speak for the deceased without judgment, only understanding. Ender wrote it. Nobody knew. It was, simultaneously, his confession and his atonement.
A text, not a physical artifact. Written anonymously by Ender under the pseudonym 'Speaker for the Dead.' Its companion volume, 'The Hegemon,' told Peter's story.
Also known as: The Hive Queen, Speaker for the Dead (book)