Xenocide
Series: Ender's Saga, #3
Publisher: Legend
Published: 1992
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 562
ISBN-13: 9780099525004
First sentence: &lt;Today one of the brothers asked me: Is it a terrible prison, not to be able to move from the place where you're standing?>
Table of contents: title: The war for survival of the planet Lusitania will be fought in the hearts of a child named Gloriously Bright.; title: On Lusitania, Ender found a world where humans and pequininos and the Hive Queen could all live together; where three very different intelligent species could find common ground at last. Or so he thought.; title: Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus that kills all humans it infects, but which the pequininos require in order to become adults. The Starways Congress so fears the effects 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.