Xenocide
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Xenocide
| Author | Orson Scott Card |
|---|---|
| Published | 1991 |
| Pages | 569 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | The third Ender book, which turns the saga into a problem of competing obligations: a human colony shares Lusitania with an intelligent native species and a virus lethal to humans but part of that species’ life cycle, while a fleet approaches with orders to sterilise the planet. Every solution kills something, and Card spends the book refusing to make the choice easy — largely a novel of argument among several species, religions and one artificial intelligence. |
Xenocide
Where I heard about it
- a16z’s infrastructure team — on the a16z Infra Reading List, in the Sci-fi — Must reads section (S tier), under the Ender’s Saga entry. Their framing of the sequels is that they cover Ender “living with and making amends for his actions as a soldier.”
About this edition
Much longer and slower than Ender’s Game.
Connections
- a16z Infra Reading List — where this is listed, in the top tier.
- Orson Scott Card — the author.
- Ender’s Game — volume one.
- Speaker for the Dead — volume two, already carded.
- Children of the Mind — volume four, which continues the same crisis.
- Ethics — the book is an extended exercise in it.
- Science Fiction — the genre.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.