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Work InformationXenocide by Orson Scott Card (1991)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Continues on from Speaker for the Dead. Valentine and her family arrive on Lusitania, even as Starways Congress' Fleet bears down on the planet with the M.D Device. Ender is struggling under the impending doom from the Fleet, the adaptable and destructive descolada, the diplomacy between the three sentient species and the problems within his own family. Introduces Han Qing-jao, Han Fei-tzu and Si Wang-mu, who live on the Taoist Chinese world of Path. They are given a mandate to discover the whereabouts of the Lusitania fleet after Jane hid it. Raises issues of servility, as well as the nature of religion and faith when it has been engineered into you. Orson Scott Card expands on his idea of the philotes, indivisible particles that join and create everything real. They use this idea to permit instantaneous starflight by shifting to the Outside and back In. Possible relations to string theory? The concept of an auia, the spirit philote which represents an individual - controlling a network of smaller auias in cells etc. resembles a physical soul. Provides mechanism for Jane's emergence, and for the transfer of memories in the pequenino lifecycle. Ender A profound and complex story, but not as good as Speaker for the Dead. There seemed to be some noticeable weakening in the writing style between the two books or maybe the repetition of some large-scale themes explains the difference. Also, though the people of the Path invention was clever, it was not fun to read and a bit too critical of religious people. Either way, still a very strong science-fiction novel and I am eager to continue with the series. This is the third time I have read this book. I enjoyed it more this time than any other mostly because I did not have expectations that were incorrect concerning the type of story. With this story the paths of the hive queen, piggies and descolada gets much deeper and more entwined. And while there is clearly more to go on in the next book I felt it finished in an acceptable way and left me with a sense that some of the story was completed.
Bár a regény korántsem tökéletes, mégis megérdemli, hogy kiemelkedőnek nevezzem, hiszen kétségtelenül az utóbbi évek legötletesebb és legérdekesebb regénye. Card igazi profi, aki új színt hoz a sci-fibe: a pontosan kidolgozott karakterábrázolást, mely - valljuk be - az egész sci-fi műfaj leggyengébb pontja. Belongs to SeriesEnder Saga (3) Ender's Game (3) Enderverse (16) Belongs to Publisher SeriesJ'ai lu (4024) Awards
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HTML: In 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. But 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 and a second xenocide seems inevitable. Until the fleet vanishes. No library descriptions found. |
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Nonsensical pseudo-intellectual masturbation; all the appearance of profound thoughts without any profundity to be seen, for hundreds of pages.
Is this really the same author as Speaker for the Dead, a book that actually had something to say while simultaneously actually telling a story?
Card in the years since I read this revealed himself as a horrible human being, too. Don't waste your time or mental energy. ( )