Xenocide

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Author(s):

Orson Scott Card

First Pub:

1991

Genre(s):

Science Fiction

First Read:

2006

Times Read:

1 time

Rating:

Subject(s):

Science Fiction
Wiggin, Ender (Fictitious character) - Fiction

Chapters:

See 17

1 - A Parting

2 - A Meeting

3 - Clean Hands

4 - Jane

5 - The Lisitania Fleet

6 - Verelse

7 - Secret Maid

8 - Miracles

9 - Pinehead

10 - Martyr

11 - The Jade of Master Ho

12 - Grego's War

13 - Free Will

14 - Virus Makers

15 - Voyage

16 - Ender's Children

17 - The God of Path

Internal ID:

1484

Series:

Speaker for the Dead
Children of the Mind

Ender's Game Series*

#3 of 17

Ender's Game Series*

The complete series of science fiction books set in the Ender Wiggin's / Formics / Bean universe written by Orson Scott Card.

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1) Ender's Game
2) Speaker for the Dead
3) Xenocide
4) Children of the Mind
5) Ender's Shadow
6) Shadow of the Hegemon
7) Shadow Puppets
9) Shadow of the Giant
10) A War of Gifts: An Ender Story
11) Ender in Exile
12) Shadows in Flight
13) Earth Unaware
14) Earth Afire
15) Earth Awakens
16) The Swarm
17) The Hive

Copyright:

Dedication:

To Clark and Kathy Kidd:
for the freedom, for the haven,
and for frolics all over America.

First Sentence:

Han Fei-tzu sat in lotus position on the bare wooden floor beside his wife's sickbed.

Last Sentence:

May contain spoilers

For the God of Path is Gloriously Bright.

Comments:

Comments may contain spoilers

Read this just after finishing Speaker for the Dead.

Extract not on file

Added: 31-Jan-2015

Last Updated: 17-Mar-2023

15-Aug-1992

Tor Books

Paperback

Date Issued:

15-Aug-1992

Format:

Paperback

Cover Price:

$7.99

Pages*:

592

Read:

Once

Reading(s):

1) 1 Jan 2006 - 1 Jan 2006

Cover Link(s):

Internet Speculative Fiction Database

amazon.com

Internal ID:

1571

Publisher:

Tor Books

ISBN:

0-812-50925-0

ISBN-13:

978-0-812-50925-0

Printing:

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Credits:

John Harris - Cover Artist

THE WAR FOR THE SURVIVAL OF THE PLANET LISITANIA WILL BE FOUGHT IN THE HEART OF A CHILD NAMED GLORIOUSLY BRIGHT

On Lusitania, Ender found a world where humans and pequininos and the Hive Queen could all live together; where three very different intelligent species could find common ground at last. Or so he thought.

Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus that kills all humans it infects, but which the pequininos require in order to tranform into adults. The Startways Congress so fears the effects of the descolada, should it escape from Lusitania, that they have ordered the destruction of the entire planet, and all who live there. The Fleet is on its way, a second Xenocide seems inevitable.

Until the fleet vanishes.

The task of discovering how the ships were made to disappear falls to Gloriously Bright, the most brilliant analytical mind in a world of people bred to superintelligence. There is little doubt that she can solve the puzzle: but will she choose life or death for the three races who live on Lusitania?

"Card has raised to a fine art the creation of suspense by means of ethocal dilemmas." - Chicago Sun-Times

"XENOCIDE is certain to be one of the most sought-after new books of the year." - Science Fiction Chronicles

"An undeniable heavyweight... This book combines Card's quirky style with his hard ethical dilemmas and sharply drawn portraits." - New York Daily News

Cover:

Notes and Comments:

First edition: August 1991
First mass market printing: August 1992
Fourteenth printing based on the number line
Canada: $10.99

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15-Aug-1992
Tor Books
Paperback

Author(s)

Orson Scott Card
Birth: 24 Aug 1951 Richland, Washington, USA

Awards

1992	Locus Magazine	Best SF Novel	Nominee
1992	World Science Fiction Society	Hugo Award - Best Novel	Nominee

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