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<p>The war for survival of the planet Lusitania will be fought in the heart of a child named Gloriously Bright.<br><br>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.<br><br>Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus that kills all humans it infects, but which the pequininos require in order to become adults. The Startways 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, a second xenocide seems inevitable.<br><br><i>Xenocide</i> is the third novel in Orson Scott Card's Ender Quintet.<br><br>THE ENDER UNIVERSE<br><br>Ender series<br><i>Ender’s Game</i> /<i> Ender in Exile </i>/ <i>Speaker for the Dead </i>/ <i>Xenocide </i>/ <i>Children of the Mind</i><br><br>Ender’s Shadow series<br><i>Ender’s Shadow </i>/ <i>Shadow of the Hegemon </i>/ <i>Shadow Puppets </i>/ <i>Shadow of the Giant </i>/ <i>Shadows in Flight</i><br><br><i>Children of the Fleet</i><br><br>The First Formic War (with Aaron Johnston)<br><i>Earth Unaware </i>/ <i>Earth Afire </i>/ <i>Earth Awakens</i><br><br>The Second Formic War (with Aaron Johnston)<br><i>The Swarm </i>/<i>The Hive</i><br><br>Ender novellas<br><i>A War of Gifts </i>/<i>First Meetings</i></p>
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“When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence. Let it be the most obvious fabrication and you will still believe whatever t...”
“With life. Rooter says that life is how God gives purpose to the universe.”
“The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.”
“I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself.”
“When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn't yet know that he needs your wisdom you keep it to yourself. Food only look...”
“someone's sent a loving note in lines of returning geese and as the moon fills my western chamber as petals dance over the flowing stream again I think of you the two of us living a sadness...”
“It was not right, thought Han Fei-tzu, for his wife to die before him: her ancestor-of-the-heart had outlived her husband. Besides, wives should live longer than husbands. Women were more co...”
“I know that you are wise. When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence…You believe that the story is true, because you res...”