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Xenocide Orson Scott Card
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Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead were two of the giant SF novels of the eighties. Now, after a wait of five years, comes the enthralling Xenocide. Ender and Valentine Wiggin: brother and sister of genius. Their lives have shaped history. Valentine is 'Demosthenes' whose subversive writings fight the monstrous power of Starways Congress, the masters of the Hundred Worlds. And Ender As a child, Ender brilliantly commanded the human war fleet that wiped out a planet. The triumph of his life is his perpetual fight to stop it happening again. It may be his tragedy that he cannot. For Congress has sent a war fleet to Lusitania, home to Ender and his family, two alien species - and the deadliest virus ever known. The war fleet carries an order to destroy the planet. To commit xenocide. Orson Scott Card combines the vast mysteries of space with very real portraits of men and women caught in epoch-making events. Rich, long, brilliant, Xenocide is a towering novel, classic SF of the highest order. |
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Review by Nigel (010302) Rating (6/10) Review
by Nigel This is the third instalment in the Ender series and it seems to be running out of steam a little. The overall story is good but as I went along I got the impression it was padded with Mr Cards philosophical thoughts. Admittedly, some of these were interesting, but weren't really necessary for the story. Overall
a good third book adding to the series but let down a little with
the rambling. |
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