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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.
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©1991 Orson Scott Card (P)2000 Audio Renaissance

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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Love this series, audio performances are great - thought provoking, also a bonus to hear credits from the author!

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Stop with speaker for the dead.

He has no issues writing dialog of two people arguing, with both sides being so stubborn, that neither even listens to the other. Outside of that, the only other things this book contains are repetitiveness, and the quasi philosophical ramblings of a man trying to explain religion and the soul with imaginary science.

The performances were great as always. Given that the entire book is just dialogue (even the sections that aren’t dialogue are written as dialogue) it really fits this medium. One thing though, is that it would have been a little nicer if the narrators had broken down the text to reading their characters more, rather than just reading blocks, and passing it to the next narrator. Like how they managed the hive queen scenes.

Overall, card was still not ready to write this book, and it should have been a stand alone with new characters, rather than a continuation of the ‘ender trilogy’.

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Spectacular sci-fi

A fantastic read. A great addition to the Enderverse loved every minute of it. Orson Scott Card never fails to impress. Spectacular sci-fi

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Philosophy at its best

great hybrid between theological ideas science fiction. beautiful story and well read by the actors.

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Sci-Fi or Sci-Phi?

science, ethics, philosophy. Explorations of the meaning of life and a beings right to exist.

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