Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Saga

Orson Scott Card

Nov 2009 · The Ender Saga Book 3 · Sold by Tor Books

About this ebook

The war for survival of the planet Lusitania 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 become adults. The Starways 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.

Xenocide is the third novel in Orson Scott Card's The Ender Saga.

THE ENDER UNIVERSE

Ender series
Ender’s Game / Ender in Exile / Speaker for the Dead / Xenocide / Children of the Mind

Ender’s Shadow series
Ender’s Shadow / Shadow of the Hegemon / Shadow Puppets / Shadow of the Giant / Shadows in Flight

Children of the Fleet

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

The Second Formic War (with Aaron Johnston)
The Swarm /The Hive

Ender novellas
A War of Gifts /First Meetings

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Ratings and reviews

This is not a sequel to Ender's Game. Ender's Game is a prequel to this book. The reason I say that is because this book is very different. Ender in the book is well defined character, not the relatable person you had in the prequel who was going on his quest to identify who he is in his journey powered by his talents and the environment. This is more of a man in his middle years trying to remedy things, trying to have a family almost :D The book is not as fast-paced as Ender's Game as either. There are however still lessons to be learned. I love the discussion on the spectrum of intelligence and how in a way Scott comments on Colonization, Hegemony and other related issues. Still a good book, but nothing when you are fresh off the awesomeness that is Ender's Game

I really liked this book for a lot of reasons. Most of which center around its incorporation of topics of philosophy, religion and faith, and a quasi pseudo science that fits the purposes of this novel. To be able to include these very weighty topics into a science fiction narrative such as this is nothing short of remarkable. Where I do not like this book is in its ending. Not enough loose ends were tied up properly enough to make this ending satisfying, even if Card does cover these in the sequels.

Interesting book at times, but not as good as the first two books. It rambles endlessly with meaningless speculations and psuedo science, like a textbook. By the halfway point I wanted to quit reading, but finished anyways to see how the story ends...guess what, there's a 4th book too, so everything works out.

About the author

Orson Scott Card is best known for his science fiction novel Ender's Game and it's many sequels that expand the Ender Universe into the far future and the near past. Those books are organized into The Ender Saga, the five books that chronicle the life of Ender Wiggin; the Shadow Series, that follows on the novel Ender's Shadow and are set on Earth; and the Formic Wars series, written with co-author Aaron Johnston, that tells of the terrible first contact between humans and the alien "Buggers".

Card has been a working writer since the 1970s. Beginning with dozens of plays and musical comedies produced in the 1960s and 70s, Card's first published fiction appeared in 1977--the short story "Gert Fram" in the July issue of The Ensign, and the novelette version of "Ender's Game" in the August issue of Analog.

The novel-length version of Ender's Game, published in 1984 and continuously in print since then, became the basis of the 2013 film, starring Asa Butterfield, Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley, Hailee Steinfeld, Viola Davis, and Abigail Breslin.

Card was born in Washington state, and grew up in California, Arizona, and Utah. He served a mission for the LDS Church in Brazil in the early 1970s. Besides his writing, he runs occasional writers' workshops and directs plays. He frequently teaches writing and literature courses at Southern Virginia University.

He is the author many sf and fantasy novels, including the American frontier fantasy series "The Tales of Alvin Maker" (beginning with Seventh Son), There are also stand-alone science fiction and fantasy novels like Pastwatch and Hart's Hope. He has collaborated with his daughter Emily Card on a manga series, Laddertop. He has also written contemporary thrillers like Empire and historical novels like the monumental Saints and the religious novels Sarah and Rachel and Leah. Card's recent work includes the Mithermages books (Lost Gate, Gate Thief), contemporary magical fantasy for readers both young and old.

Card lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with his wife, Kristine Allen Card, He and Kristine are the parents of five children and several grandchildren.