Book guide
Xenocide
With Lusitania condemned for harbouring the deadly descolada, Ender must stop a second xenocide before the fleet arrives.
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About Xenocide
On the distant world of Lusitania, three intelligent species struggle to survive together — but the wider human universe sees only danger. The descolada virus, lethal to humans yet essential to the alien pequeninos, has made Lusitania a threat too great for the Starways Congress to tolerate. A fleet has been sent to destroy the planet and everyone on it, making a second xenocide seem inevitable. As Ender Wiggin searches for a way to prevent catastrophe, the fate of Lusitania may depend on Gloriously Bright, a brilliant child whose mind could alter the future of worlds. Expansive, philosophical, and morally urgent, Xenocide continues Orson Scott Card’s landmark Ender Saga with a powerful story of survival, faith, intelligence, and the terrible choices made when fear is mistaken for justice.
Reading signals
- Spice
- None
- Darkness
- Dark
- Pacing
- Slow
Series
Ender's Saga · Book 3 of 6
Content warnings
- death
- genocide
- mild profanity
- violence
- disease/virus
- planetary destruction threat
- torture
- body horror
- obsessive-compulsive symptoms
- ableism
- religious indoctrination and extremism
- xenophobia
