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Xenocide

Orson Scott Card

1991416 pagesabout 6–10 hours
1991
first published
  • 1991Century · 463 pages · ENGISBN 9780712647748
  • 1992Tor · 608 pages · ENGISBN 9780812509250
  • 1996Tor Books · 416 pages · ENGISBN 9780312861872
  • 1996Tandem Library · ENGISBN 9781417646517
  • 2021Tor Science Fiction · 608 pagesISBN 9781250773074
  • 2003Audio Literature · ENGISBN 9781574535433
  • 2006Audio Renaissance · ENGISBN 9781593974787
  • 1999Tandem Library · ENGISBN 9780785716341

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.

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