Sci-Fi & Speculative

Xenocide

by Orson Scott Card · Ender's Saga series

On Lusitania, Ender finds a world where humans and pequeninos and the Hive Queen could all live together. However, Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus that kills all humans it infects, but which the pequeninos require in order to become adults. Card weaves philosophy, xenobiology, and ethical dilemmas into a complex meditation on coexistence and the price of understanding. The Starways Congress's fear of the virus threatens to destroy everything Ender has worked to build.

Ender's Saga in reading order

• 1. Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1) — Orson Scott Card
• 1. Ender's Game, Volume 1: Battle School (Ender's Saga) — Christopher Yost
• 2. Speaker for the Dead — Orson Scott Card
• 3. Xenocide — Orson Scott Card
• 4. Children of the Mind — Orson Scott Card
• 5. Ender in Exile — Orson Scott Card
• First Meetings in Ender's Universe — Orson Scott Card

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