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Xenocide

Volume Three of the Ender Saga

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Xenocide

By: Orson Scott Card
Narrated by: Scott Brick, Gabrielle de Cuir, Amanda Karr, John Rubinstein, Stefan Rudnicki
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 Xenocide is the third installment of the Ender series. On Lusitania, Ender found a world where humans and pequeninos and the Hive Queen could all live together; where three very different intelligent species could find common ground at last. Or so he thought. But Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus which kills all humans it infects, but which the pequeninos require in order to transform into adults. The Starways Congress so fears the effect 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 and a second Xenocide seems inevitable, until the Fleet vanishes.Browse more titles in the Ender Wiggin series.©1991 Orson Scott Card (P)2000 Audio Renaissance Adventure Military Science Fiction Space Opera

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Critic reviews

"Thought-provoking, insightful, and powerfully written." ( School Library Journal)
"As a storyteller, Card excels in portraying the quiet drama of wars fought not on battlefields but in the hearts and minds of his characters." ( Library Journal)
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I loved this story, a fantastic continuation to the engrossing Ender series. Highly recommended. Keeps you engrossed till the end.

Beautiful story

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Enjoyable romp, nice continuation of the second book but also starting to get slightly more woolly and doesn't finish well. I'm really glad I listened to it though - lots of interesting characters and situations that will stay with me

Enjoyable Romp

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this book is descolada for the mind... like Han faysa's purification you get taken on dance that doesn't really go anywhere but, unlike Han faysa's, it's not a chore!

descolada for the mind...

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the ender stories takes you to another world in great detail. could listen time and time again. easy to listen to mainly because of the readers voices.

love it

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with an amazing set of voices carried over through the series and excellent performance. story is amazing too

great voices. amazing story!

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After listening to so speaker for the dead I had to get this one. It was OK, nothing got to too excited and parts could have been fleshed out more especially after a fire takes place.

Good but not exceptionable.

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This is the third in the "Ender" series, coming after Ender's Game and Speaker For The Dead. This outing is a bit slower and a lot wordier than its predecessors, taking the time to discuss various philosophical ideas and to expand on the relationships of the many diverse characters. Orson Scott Card's skill at writing and depth of thought allows him to pull off the philosophical concepts that are woven into the fabric of the storyline convincingly and there is no sense of contrivance to the events that flow out of it. All the characters are excellently developed, and Ender is seen to be more human, faltering in his relationship with his wife (mad as a box of frogs) and suffering from self-doubt and the physical return of some of his childhood ghosts. This book got too long to be published as one and was split to accommodate the finale, Children of the Mind that I am looking forward to greatly. The same team of narrators as in the previous books perform to their usual excellent, crisp standards.

A worthy listen

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It was a bit boring, too much unnecessary dialogue. If Orson Scott had just got on with it, would have been much better.

Goes on and on and on and on about religion.

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Really injoy the reading story and thought behind this book.. A look into the human condition the flaws the hope we all have as a spices. What can be accomplished if we think outside the box no and again

Food for thought

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I can see how this could be made into a film but it would lose its philosophical soul. Lots of really interesting things to think about now. When is sanity madness and vice versa? When is it ok to wipe out a species? Who are you, actually? Enjoy.

Fasinating

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