Le Guin., 'The finest science fiction series of the past decade.' -The Columbus Dispatch 'The best writer science fiction has to offer.' -The Houston Post '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.This meaty, graceful, and provoking sequel to Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead stands as a brilliant testimony to his thoughtfulness.' -Library Journal 'Hugo and Nebula-award winner Orson Scott Card demonstrates again that he belongs in the company of such older masters of science fiction as Isaac Asimov, Frank Herbert and Ursula K. Hugo and Nebula-award winner Orson Scott Card demonstrates again that he belongs in the company of such older masters of science fiction as Isaac Asimov, Frank Herbert and Ursula K. THE ENDER UNIVERSE Ender series Ender's Game / Ender in Exile / Speaker for the Dead / Xenocide / Children of the Mind Ender's Shadow series Ender's Shadow / Shadow of the Hegemon / Shadow Puppets / Shadow of the Giant / Shadows in Flight Children of the Fleet The First Formic War (with Aaron Johnston) Earth Unaware / Earth Afire / Earth Awakens The Second Formic War (with Aaron Johnston) The Swarm / The Hive Ender novellas A War of Gifts / First Meetings Xenocide is the third novel in Orson Scott Card's Ender Quintet. The Fleet is on its way, a second xenocide seems inevitable. The Startways 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.

Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus that kills all humans it infects, but which the pequininos require in order to become adults.

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. The war for survival of the planet Lusitania will be fought in the heart of a child named Gloriously Bright.

Ender's game xenocide