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Xenocide

78.6% complete
1991
2006
1 time
Science Fiction
Wiggin, Ender (Fictitious character) - Fiction
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
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 Ender's Game Series*
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The complete series of science fiction books set in the Ender Wiggin's / Formics / Bean universe written by Orson Scott Card.

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 © 1991 by Orson Scott Card
To Clark and Kathy Kidd:
for the freedom, for the haven,
and for frolics all over America.
Han Fei-tzu sat in lotus position on the bare wooden floor beside his wife's sickbed.
May contain spoilers
For the God of Path is Gloriously Bright.
Comments may contain spoilers
Read this just after finishing Speaker for the Dead.
Synopsis not on file
Extract not on file

 

Added: 31-Jan-2015
Last Updated: 17-Mar-2023

Publications

 15-Aug-1992
Tor Books
Paperback
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Date Issued:
15-Aug-1992
Format:
Paperback
Cover Price:
$7.99
Pages*:
592
Read:
Once
Reading(s):
1)   1 Jan 2006 - 1 Jan 2006
Internal ID:
1571
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-812-50925-0
ISBN-13:
978-0-812-50925-0
Printing:
14
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
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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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Author(s)

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

Awards

1992Locus MagazineBest SF Novel Nominee
1992World Science Fiction SocietyHugo Award - Best Novel Nominee
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