Xenocide

Volume Three of the Ender Saga

By: Orson Scott Card

Narrated by: Scott Brick, Gabrielle de Cuir, Amanda Karr, John Rubinstein, Stefan Rudnicki

Length: 20 hrs and 10 mins

Publisher's summary

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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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)

amazingly deep story wonderfully

Orson Scott card outdoes himself again.
explores the boundaries between physics and philosophy moral dilemmas and ethical choices all in all one of his best works yet

One of my favorites.

Qing Jao is as fascinating as Ender was in the first novel. Her relationships, motivations, and choices are an insight that kept me focused. I could cry for the way I feel after reading this. This book is an accomplishment and I will remember it forever.

mind blowing

I binged it. absolutely worth it. word word word word word word word word up!

Xenocide the murder of an entire alien race. Or 3

This is such a great extension of speaker of the dead.

And now I have to get the next book and start it immediately

not an Ender Story

That's not to say that Ender does not play a huge role in the book, he does. If you listen to this book expecting it to be like Enders Game you will be disappointed. It is however an excellent book about ethics and survival. I have enjoyed this book more than the first two and I enjoyed the first two audio books a lot.

OCD? Yes

Not as tightly written as the first two. I appreciate the depth of his understanding of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder but would have preferred not to have read soooo much of it.
I am still a fan and am glad I read it. but I doubt I will read it again.
I look forward to re-reading the "Shadow" books.

Makes You Think

The narration is fantastic and follows in the tradition of the other Ender books. The story is complex, but if you stick through the depth of the beginning you find a world that you don't want to end. The characters are masterfully crafted.

Tao

I love the way Card incorporated a bit of Taoism into this story. I get so involved in Card's characters! Qing-Jao was arrogant and annoying, I wanted to smack her at times! I KNEW exactly where she was heading near the end!

This was ROUGH to get through (audio performance)

Xenocide as a book and story was great. I enjoyed it thoroughly and am excited for Children of the Mind.

That said, it's disgusting to me that they hired 6 different voice actors (according to the end credits) and none of them are of Asian descent, regardless of the fact that half of this book is read through the eyes of two Asian girls and an Asian man. The accents were extremely ignorant. The reviewer that likened the performance to an SNL skit was not off base. I kept wondering how anyone thought this was a good idea. The main male voice actor (thankfully) only read about two chapters in his faux accent, though one of them is the opening chapter so that was a bit of a red flag.

The woman is better at toeing the line and was tolerable, that was until Chapter 13 when she took the character of Mu-pao and used the most blatantly racist accent I've ever heard. I was actually appalled and played the scene for many friends to make sure I wasn't being overly sensitive. None of them believed it was real it was that bad.

The fact that Greggo and Ella seem to get their own voice actors randomly at points in the book screams to me that they could have easily cast an actual Asian person to do the characters right but chose not to.

*SPOILER*
If I didn't already know that the Path plotline ends at the end of Xenocide, I would be reading Children of the Mind, not listening to it.

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