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Xenocide

Xenocide

by Orson Scott Card

Space warfareFictionFiction, science fiction, hard science fictionFiction, fantasy, epicReading Level-Grade 7
3.8
Open Library
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On Lusitania, Ender finds a world where humans and pequeninos and the Hive Queen could all live together. However, Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus that kills all humans it infects, but which the pequeninos 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. With the Fleet on its way, a second xenocide seems inevitable.

Themes & subjects

Space warfareFictionFiction, science fiction, hard science fictionFiction, fantasy, epicReading Level-Grade 7Reading Level-Grade 9

Characters & people

Setting

Lusitania (imaginary place), fiction

About the author

Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card

August 24, 1951

Orson Scott Card is an American novelist, critic, public speaker, essayist and columnist. He writes in several genres but is known best for science fiction. His novel Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel Speaker for the Dead (1986) both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the only author to win both science fiction's top U.S. prizes in consecutive years.

Author

Orson Scott Card

Pages

576

Read time

≈ 14h

Editions

38

Languages

English, Spanish, French

Publisher

Tor

ISBN

9782277240242

Where to buy

TR
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French Wikipédia Page

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