Xenocide: Book 3 of the Ender Saga

Orson Scott Card

Sep 2011 · Hachette UK

About this ebook

'Orson Scott Card made a strong case for being the best writer science fiction has to offer.' - The Houston Post on Xenocide

'The novels of Orson Scott Card's Ender series are an intriguing combination of action, military and political strategy, elaborate war games and psychology.' - USA Today

TOGETHER THEY STAND - BUT CAN THEY PREVENT AN ATROCITY?

Ender and Valentine Wiggin: brother and sister whose lives have shaped history. Valentine is 'Demosthenes', whose subversive, incendiary writings fight the monstrous power of Starways Congress, masters of the Hundred Worlds.

And Ender. . . As a child, Ender commanded a warfleet that wiped out a planet. The triumph of his life could be his fight to stop it happening again. It might be his tragedy that he cannot.

Congress has sent a warfleet to Lusitania, home to Ender, his family, two alien species and the deadliest virus ever known. The warfleet carries an order to destroy. To commit xenocide.

A sequel novel to the science fiction classic ENDER'S GAME - soon to be released as a major motion picture starring Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley and Asa Butterfield

Books by Orson Scott Card:

Alvin Maker novels
Seventh Son
Red Prophet
Prentice Alvin
Alvin Journeyman
Heartfire
The Crystal City

Ender Wiggin Saga
Ender's Game
Speaker for the Dead
Xenocide
Children of the Mind
Ender in Exile

Homecoming
The Memory of the Earth
The Call of the Earth
The Ships of the Earth
Earthfall
Earthborn

First Formic War (with Aaron Johnston)
Earth Unaware
Earth Afire
Earth Awakens

Ratings and reviews

I loved the book (as I have the previous 2). However the ending was ridiculous to me, surely people wouldn't act like that. I understand why Qing Jao did what she did because sometimes you can be so dependant on something that you simply can't live without it. However I don't think the people of Path would have had the reaction to it that they did, especially if they were all so intelligent. Maybe it's just me, but those last pages really bothered me because it had gone so well until that point.

A fitting addition to the Ender series. Vigorously challenges the notions of good and evil, hero's and villains, Gods and men and space-time as we know it.

Most things from the beginning of Ender series was settled here. It was a good read and contains unexpected twists. I find some explanations were to detailed

About the author

Orson Scott Card is the award-winning author of ENDER'S GAME, SPEAKER FOR THE DEAD and XENOCIDE. He lives with with wife and three children in the US.