Not up to the caliber of Ender's Game, but good nonetheless

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	• Xenocide (Ender, Book 3) Orson Scott Card Tor Books, 1992 - 608 pages average customer review:based on 211 reviews view larger image
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Excellent

This book does an excellent job of telling a great science fiction story while integrating philisophical and spiritual ways of looking at the universe. This book is an excellent example of how sci-fi no only provides new ideas in the world of technology, but also in the world of morality and spirituality.

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Not up to the caliber of Ender's Game, but good nonetheless

I loved Ender's Game, certainly it is one of my favorite books. Speaker for the Dead, which introduced the piggies an Ender's post-xenocide life, was good but at times a little slow. I think Xenocide is second best of the three. I love the philosophical and scientific discussion of philotic threads, which often spans several pages. The parts with the Path, i.e. a Chinese colony highly involved with Starways Congress, were extremely dull at the beginning, but picked up speed later on. The chapters on Lusitania were overall better though. The main thing that I didn't like about the book was the seperation of Ender and Valentine and the way that Ender becomes more a part of his new family. I don't find Novinha's family (can't remember last name...) very interesting. I always liked the relationship between the Wiggin siblings, and this kills it a little. Oh well, good book, hope to read Children of the Mind soon and then on to the Bean series!

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Not as Fast Paced as Ender's Game - Still a great read

OSC is one of the best writers in the US today. In fact I will go so far as to say he is second only to Stephen King.

This book is not a stand-alone book, it is a sequal to Ender's Game. I read this book around 1996. I heard about Ender's Shadow a month or two ago and have recently finished the series. I have read all of the Ender and Shadow series and will continue to do so as long as they keep being written.

If you are not familiar with OSC, he is also the author/playright of the Abyss! Ender's Game is planned to be made into a movie by WB and the producer of a Perfect Storm.

This book is about Ender's life off-planet after having saved the world. This book is very philosophical and has less action. It is a not as fast paced as Ender's Game. I would say more about the book, but I hate people giving away any information about books and movies so I won't.

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Very thought provoking sci-fi

Xenocide, by Orson Scott Card, is a book that makes you think about human will. Does it exist; do we really choose for ourselves what our next move is going to be, or are humans just puppets of their genetic code? Card has presented in this novel questions that may not be answerable. Also in this book, are ethical dilemmas that make you think about your religion and what we humans are here for. Though, as thought provoking as it is, this book still entertains. What I really liked about this book was that I could read it without having read the second novel in the Ender trilogy. Also, Card is able to present many characters, species, and situations that react to problems in ways that many different people that you know would. This book keeps you interested, to the point that I recomend that you not begin reading this at night (you won't be able to sleep, I'd know!). This book gets a double thumbed, five starred, award winning, standing overationic, spectactularly large round of applause for edge of your seat suspense and a mind provoking plot.

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