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Xenocide by Orson Scott Card

Xenocide by Orson Scott Card

      
THE WAR FOR THE 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.

But Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus which kills all humans it infects, but which the pequininos 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.

The task of discovering how the ships were made to disappear falls to Gloriously Bright, the most brilliant analytical mind in a world of people bred to superintelligence. There is little doubt that she can solve the puzzle; but will she choose life or death for the three races who live on Lusitania?

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Paperback

Aug-1991

Warner

ISBN: 0712647740

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Aug-1992

Orbit

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Mass Market Paperback

Aug-1992

Tor

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Aug-1992

Random House (UK)

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Jul-1996

Tor

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Hardcover

Jan-1991

Tor

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Jul-1991

Tor

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Aug-1991

Perfection Learning

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Aug-1992

Turtleback Books

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Aug-1992

Turtleback Books

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Jan-1997

Doubleday

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Dec-2009

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Jul-1991

MacMillan Audio

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Audio Literature

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published

Jul-1991 (hardcover)

Aug-1991 (paperback)

author series

Ender - 3

time period

Futuristic

genres

Speculative Fiction

sub-genres

Space Opera

people / creatures

Aliens