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Xenocide: Book 3 of the Ender Saga [Paperback]

Orson Scott Card (Author)
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Publication Date: 6 Aug 1992 | Series: Ender Saga (Book 3)

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.

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  • Paperback: 576 pages
  • Publisher: Orbit; New Ed edition (6 Aug 1992)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1857238583
  • ISBN-13: 978-1857238587
  • Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 17.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (33 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 143,164 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Xenocide is Card's best-selling sequel to the Hugo Award-winning Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Haunting, compulsive, urgently readable...Storytelling genius (INTERZONE)
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20 of 23 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Not on par with the first two... 18 Oct 2001
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
First two books in Ender series are wonderful reads with a gripping storyline and excellent writing. Well, the third book has the same excellent writing but lacks the storyline.

No wonder Mr.Card is a great writer; whatever he writes he writes it good. Unfortunately Xenocide serves the purpose of bringing up a number of muddled ideas rather than telling a story. As a matter of fact there are so many ideas (overcoming an intelligent virus, how to save Jane, the Godspoken, Novinha's frustration against Ender, Ender's "split" personality, piggies' rights, virus rights, Bugger's way of thinking, Inside and Outside, faster-than-light-travel and some more minor things) that all comes to frustrating complexity and since the author does not have enough "time" (number of pages) to devote to each idea, almost everything except a few becomes muddled.

At the end, since the author creates more problems than necessary for a book - that can be handled in a single book - in order to neatly tie all that mess up, he has to resort to deus ex machina by means of hard sci-fi. Well Mr. Card is a great writer of characters, but he's not that great in hard sc-fi; thus his attempt makes you feel kinda cheated.

Overall this is an inescapable book. If you've started Ender Saga you'll have to read this. Thanks to Card's writing, it is still a fun read but especially with its ending it is unsatisfactory.

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars A wealth of emotional, scientific and philosophical conflict 23 Mar 2005
By Semioticghost
Format:Paperback
Third in Orson Scott Card's "Ender" cycle, "Xenocide" charts the events on the planet of Lusitania, home to all three sentient species in existence, two of which are not represented anywhere else in the universe. All living things on Lusitania are subject to a virus, the Descolada, which attacks and modifies the genetic information of the host and is evolving rapidly to the extend that combating it requires constant alteration of viricides in both non-native sentient species. Yet the native species, the Pequeninos, require the Descolada to survive, as it forms the means by which they transform into the different phases of their lifecycle. Any species looking to leave the planet would be required to take the Descolada with them, as it adapts and becomes a necessary part of any organism's genetic make-up. This is one of the main problems the planet is faced with, but the second is equally serious:
Lusitania is under threat of being annihilated by a fleet sent by Starways Congress, because the planet's scientists have broken the law of not interfering with alien species by helping the sentient Pequeninos to gain a foothold in agriculture. Rather than sending the scientists to trial and certain lifelong exile, the colony rebels and is thus to be turned into an example.
The narrative hinges on Ender Wiggin and those around him, with a wealth of emotional, scientific and philosophical conflict between unique characters against a background of questions more normally expected in moral philosophy.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Book 21 Mar 2013
By Petra Kerkeling-sheerin
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Well written for all age groups from teenager upwards. I enjoyed the way that Scott Card built up the characters and formed interlinking plots. An excellent and entertaining read.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Xenocide 28 Nov 2012
By Mr. B. Brown
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I started reading the Ender Saga at the beginning and am making my way through. Each book has been excellent and very different from its predecessor. Xenocide met my highest expectations in all ways. Although longer than the first 2 books it was gripping all the way through and I was continually looking for a few minutes in the day to read a bit more. I was quite disappointing to get to the end and have Children of the Mind already to read shortly. If you have enjoyed the other books I think this has been the best one so far.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Xenocide 10 Oct 2011
By J. M. Poulain
Format:Paperback
A very well written book by Orson scott Card, this shows the series continuing to tackle more complicated ethical ideas as opposed to the military fiction of Ender's Game. Ender has grown into a distinct character instead of playing the sterotypical child genius from the first book. Though occasionaly the normally hard science fiction elements can devolved into more metaphysical religion I thouroughly recommend the book.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars All the books in this series are are excellent reads. 17 Feb 2000
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
I read in the bath. Its the only time I get read a book these days. What does this have to do with this book, I'll tell you. Its that good that I when I get in the bath the water is warm. When I get out its cold because I have not been able to put the book down.
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2.0 out of 5 stars An okay read but not a patch on the first book 16 May 2013
By christopher mcmanus
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An okay read but not a patch on the first book. The ending just fizzles out without really explaing how or why.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Just not as good sadly 11 May 2013
By tiecreg
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Loved the first book and the second one i think preferred as it made me think about what if we did meet a fundamentally different species. Number 3 sadly just didn't hold my interest, felt more like a re-hash of 2 throwing in some oriental culture i couldnt make myself care about. I didn't read it all so maybe it gets better further into it.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing
Compared to the first two books, this was an under whelming read. The long chapters of nothing but quasi philosophical speech reek of hypocrisy coming from such an author as Card. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Jordan
2.0 out of 5 stars lost the plot
I loved first two of this series but was disappointed in how in many parts the book seemed to just ramble on and at more than one point just wished the fleet would arrive and wipe... Read more
Published 4 months ago by SlosshyDolphin
2.0 out of 5 stars Ends with a fizzle
Enjoyed te first too and felt very promising for the third. However the story became lost as too many areas were explored and a whole new issue brought in. Ended poorly for me too.
Published 5 months ago by Treemonkey
1.0 out of 5 stars Crap ending, is the kindle download broken?
I assume that there mst be a problem with the kindle download, it just ends out of the blue...either that or it s a crap ending.
Published 9 months ago by M. Edwards
2.0 out of 5 stars The ultimate destruction of a saga (no spoilers)
If you are thinking about reading this book, that means you have already read Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead. Read more
Published 11 months ago by MKC
5.0 out of 5 stars HOOKED!
Another excellent part of the ender saga. I am only 30% way through but it is getting very intense with twists and turns coming from every angle. Highly recommended.
Published 14 months ago by BAG DESIGNER
1.0 out of 5 stars Stop at Ender's Game!
I love anything SF and thoroughly enjoyed Ender's game. For me that book was easily in the top 10 of anything I have ever read and maybe in the top 3. Read more
Published 16 months ago by MR MATTHEW FARIS HASHIM
3.0 out of 5 stars OK, but still doesn't quite measure up
I think that Scott is over-rated as a scifi writer. WHile there are some imaginative details, I just can't get myself to believe in any of his things while I read them - they lack... Read more
Published on 25 May 2011 by rob crawford
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