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The Hegemon was a novel written by Andrew Wiggin under the pen name "Speaker for the Dead".[1]
History[]
Publishing[]
Published around the year 44 AX, The Hegemon was the story of Peter Wiggin's life, and the rights and wrongs he had done and the struggles he faced throughout his life.[1]
Andrew wrote the book based off of the countless hours of ansible conversations that he and his brother had before the aging Hegemon died. He published it shortly after his brother's death, under the same pseudonym as The Hive Queen had been written under, and without copyright.[2]
Legacy[]
The novel inspired the occupation of Speaker for the Dead. Many years after they were published, The Hive Queen and The Hegemon began to be sold as one volume. The two books were considered scripture to many people. The book was also interpreted as a story of humanity as a whole, while The Hive Queen was seen as a story of the Formics.[3]