Xenocide
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.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Tor Books
- Year
- 2009
- ISBN-13
- 9781429963961
- Genre
- Science Fiction
- Topics
- First contact and alien speciesGenocide and moral responsibilitySurvival against interstellar threat
Awards
- Hugo Award for Best NovelShortlisted(1992)
- Locus Award for Best Science Fiction NovelShortlisted(1992)
Other awarded books from Orson Scott Card
- Speaker for the Dead
- Ender's Game
- Seventh Son
- Prentice Alvin
- Red Prophet
- Alvin Journeyman
- The Memory of Earth
- A Planet Called Treason
- Children of the Mind
- Empire
- Enchantment
- Ender's Shadow
- Hart's Hope
- Heartfire
- Hidden Empire
- Shadow of the Giant
- Shadow of the Hegemon
- Shadow Puppets
- Songmaster
- The Call of Earth
- The Crystal City
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