A wealth of emotional, scientific and philosophical conflict

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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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OK, but a disappointing conclusion to the series

This series went downhill a bit in each subsequent book. Ender's Game was stunning. By Xenocide, the pace was slow and plodding, the characters too heavy with baggage from the previous 2 stories. Still a good book, just in no way measures up to Ender's Game.

Superb, Dont listen to these other dolts

This book is amazing, as is all the ender books. People who have read this are too stuck on Ender's game. They want action, but its called creating a story people. You can't have action action everywhere....if you really are a vivid reader and can grasp storylines, then the storytelling is action on itself. This book leaves off after Speaker for the Dead. I was dreading reading this book because people were bashing it so hard. But im glad i took my own advice. This book is amazing. If you read Ender's Game and Speaker...read this you WILL NOT be dissapointed. Thank u

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A wealth of emotional, scientific and philosophical conflict

Third in Orson Scott Card's "Ender" cycle, "Xenocide" charts the events on the planet of Lusitania, home to all three sentient species in existence, two of which are not represented anywhere else in the universe. All living things on Lusitania are subject to a virus, the Descolada, which attacks and modifies the genetic information of the host and is evolving rapidly to the extend that combating it requires constant alteration of viricides in both non-native sentient species. Yet the native species, the Pequeninos, require the Descolada to survive, as it forms the means by which they transform into the different phases of their lifecycle. Any species looking to leave the planet would be required to take the Descolada with them, as it adapts and becomes a necessary part of any organism's genetic make-up. This is one of the main problems the planet is faced with, but the second is equally serious:
Lusitania is under threat of being annihilated by a fleet sent by Starways Congress, because the planet's scientists have broken the law of not interfering with alien species by helping the sentient Pequeninos to gain a foothold in agriculture. Rather than sending the scientists to trial and certain lifelong exile, the colony rebels and is thus to be turned into an example.
The narrative hinges on Ender Wiggin and those around him, with a wealth of emotional, scientific and philosophical conflict between unique characters against a background of questions more normally expected in moral philosophy.

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Literally breath-taking

This book is almost scary. It is so powerful in invoking human emotions that at time it was necessary for me to put down the book for some time just to let it settle. Card has carried the characters and the ethical considerations into a new level of humanity. The book encompasses not only the darkest side of human nature, but also the brightest and best things that humans and other ramen can do. The plot is engrossing, making it very hard to stop reading, and there are no fore-gone conclusions. Yes, aspects of the book are stange and seem unlikly and impossible. That is because it is Science Fiction. The genera is not realistic. This book held me captive inside it with it's characters for the time it took me to read it, and I continue to think about it even after I've started a new book. This book was amazing, living up to the expectations set by the earlier books and even surpassing them in some respects.

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A Necessary Disappointment

I don't give poor reviews lightly, but this book was honestly a disappointing continuation of one of my favorite stories. It fails to stand anywhere near where "Ender's Game" and "Speaker for the Dead" rose. I admit that "Speaker" required a sequel, but this is not what I was hoping for. This book is too drawn out and far to slow to develop. Imagine taking the amount of plot content in "Speaker" and then spread that across three separate story lines. Then you have "Xenocide". Card's direction may have required some support from these other story lines, but the complexity that was beneficial to the previous novels causes this book to become slow and convoluted.

I give credit only because there are individual points of brilliance that dot this novel's landscape, but they are overshadowed by the fact that this story is meant to follow such excellent predecessors.

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