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Xenocide (Ender Wiggin)
Xenocide - Ender Wiggin
Author: Orson Scott Card
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. — But Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus which kills all humans it infects, but which the pequininos require in order to transform i...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780812509250
ISBN-10: 0812509250
Pages: 592
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  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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3.9 stars, based on 395 ratings
Publisher: Tor Books
Book Type: Paperback
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reviewed Xenocide (Ender Wiggin) on + 57 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
The third book in the Ender Quartet, the story continues right on from book 2 (no more 3000 year gap!) The Starways Congress fleet is looming above the planet of Lusitania, a deadly virus is threatening to wipe our species, straining the relationship between mankind and his alien neighbor, the pequeninos. Note: to follow the story, you have to read the preceding two Ender books first.
reviewed Xenocide (Ender Wiggin) on + 13 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
Third in the series. Don't start here, go back to Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead. GREAT sci-fi.
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Helpful Score: 3
Xenocide continues where Speaker for the Dead leaves off in the Ender's Saga and meets and exceeds all expectations. I read these books after reading the Ender's Shadow series and they are not quite as good on that aspect but Orson wrote these 15 or 20 years ago and has only gotten better as an author. Where in Shadow(Bean's Saga) is about more war and the politics of the future and trying to unite the people of Earth before the third most devastating world war breaks out. This is more sacred addressing the religions of the future and what religions aliens might have.

Ender comes to the planet with the only other aliens human's have encountered other than the formic buggers which we wiped out long ago to try and stop another xenocide from occurring when this new alien's religion leads to what humans would call murder. The mystery unfolds in greater more complicated ways in this book and old technology is explained in new ways to create a new technology to solve all of the planet's problems. It's not a light read, and it's a bit complicated but I highly recommend it for the hard core sci fi fan.
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Helpful Score: 2
This is the sequel to "Speaker for the Dead". The Ender Wiggin story just gets better and better. Ender is reunited with Valentine. The mystery of Jane's origins is uncovered. Starways Congress is also unveiled for what it has become. New characters of great depth and interest are introduced. Now I can't wait to read the next book in the series!
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This and Speaker of the Dead may be the best two books in the Ender series - especially for those who like intelligent conversation and characterization as well as action.
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cyndij avatar reviewed Xenocide (Ender Wiggin) on + 1032 more book reviews
OMG this book is so SLOW. Pages and pages of drivel about the meaning of life. People - Quara, looking at you - acting like idiots. this should have been a massive fingernail-biting rollercoaster ride, with the potential destruction of Jane, the pequeninos, and the buggers, not to mention the entire planet of Lusitania. But no, Card has his characters just blather on for two=thirds the book. Then to wrap up by having them just wish the solution into being? C'mon. And the new Peter and Valentine ...c'mon. What was the point of Path anyway? I had intended to re-read the entire Ender-verse because it's been many many years, but I didn't remember this book being so incredibly dull.
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Third in the series, I have really enjoyed Card's writings. His characters have such depth, you really learn their differences their dilemmas. Imagining other worlds and other intelligent species is a gift I wish I had, so I read.
reviewed Xenocide (Ender Wiggin) on + 7 more book reviews
This book is a wonderful sequel to Speaker for the Dead. Though Card went back later and gave us Ender in Exile, this book is one of a trilogy that traces the fate of the adult Ender Wiggins.


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