Xenocide

by Orson Scott Card

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Club de lectura en Català : [Els homes que no estimaven les dones] de [[Stieg Larsson]]	18	jmbadia, Thursday 6:24am
Recommend Site Improvements : Additional touchstones	9	BarkingMatt, October 1
Hogwarts Express : Fellowship of the Ring discussion, chapters 4-6	34	aglaia531, September 23
Recommend Site Improvements : SEARCH: Entry Date	15	lorax, September 2
The Green Dragon : Fail!	30	mindylou182, August 20
50 Book Challenge : jilly_magda's sultry past reads	2	jilly_magda, August 13
Pro and Con : More wicked American exploitation of innocent Iraqis	16	lriley, July 23
Science Fiction Fans : Mental Illness and Human Emotion	19	PeterKein, June 30
Dormant: Science Fiction Fans : What are you reading Q1 '08?	305	rojse, April 13
Dormant: Book talk : List ten books that...	73	bookladykm, March 28
Dormant: Pro and Con : Homeschooling ruled illegal in California	47	GojirasHejira, March 14
Dormant: The Green Dragon : HAPPY LEAP DAY!!	30	monohex, February 29
Dormant: I See Dead People's Books : analysis of Thomas Jefferson's library	4	thorold, February 6
Dormant: Happy Heathens : Peanut Butter DISPROVES Evolution! smacks forehead	46	ganymeder, January 28
Dormant: Science Fiction Fans : The fantasy that science fiction readers read...	100	DanoStone, January 9
Dormant: 50 Book Challenge : Claire's Book List	13	klarusu, January 2
Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : Has anyone read Ender's Game recently?	11	Killeymoon, December 2007
Dormant: Happy Heathens : The state of 'Intelligent Design' in Kansas	7	Arctic-Stranger, November 2007
Dormant: Pro and Con : Chomsky and Zinn -- a survey	93	inkdrinker, November 2007
Dormant: Awful Lit. : Jumping the Bookworm	41	ambushedbyasnail, September 2007
Dormant: The Green Dragon : Series that started well but then devolved into bunches of "eh."	65	LittleKnife, May 2007
Dormant: FAQ : exporting data	27	uncleop22, May 2007
Dormant: The Green Dragon : Have you ever continued a series...	30	cad_lib, February 2007
Book talk : Name authors that after youve red them first, you had the urge to read EVERYTHING they wrote.	418	megwaiteclayton, November 1
List Five Books Parlour Game : One word says it all...	67	SpiraledStar, August 17
What Are You Reading Now? : Where did your LT name come from?	462	bozon, June 4
Dormant: Audiobooks : What Are You Listening To Now? Part 2	220	teelgee, February 21
Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 3 November 2007	180	Lantzy, November 2007
Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 20 October 2007	174	celestria, October 2007

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jmbadia in Club de lectura en Català : [Els homes que no estimaven les dones] de [[Stieg Larsson]] (Nov 6, 2008, 4:49am)

rtrallero, Molt bon apunt això dels dos traductors! ho desconeixia completament.... mestressa, quina rapidesa, jo encara vaig per la 50, m'hi he ficat poc!!! Però reconec que es bastant ...

aglaia531 in Recommend Site Improvements : Additional touchstones (Sep 16, 2008, 9:39am)

... Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon, etc.) is definitely in the running, with 'Old Valentine' (Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind) a potential upset for the win." If characters could be touchstones, then it would read, "My favorite character from the series is a ...

aglaia531 in Hogwarts Express : Fellowship of the Ring discussion, chapters 4-6 (Sep 15, 2008, 1:59pm)

... movie; it makes Pippen's future blunders a bit easier to handle. 6. Anyone else here read Speaker for the Dead, or Xenocide? Old Man Willow reminds me of the fathertrees that perform Quim's trial by fire, as it were.

kd9 in Recommend Site Improvements : SEARCH: Entry Date (Aug 31, 2008, 2:08am)

... "in the cloud"2 without knowledge of, expertise with, or control over the technology infrastructure that supports them3. It is a general concept that incorporates software as a service, Web 2.0 and other recent, well-known technology trends, where the common theme is reliance on the Interne ...

mrgrooism in The Green Dragon : Fail! (Aug 19, 2008, 8:44pm)

... /puːn/, /pəʔˈoʊn/, /pɔːn/, /piˈoʊn/, /pwəʔˈn̩/) is a leetspeak slang term, derived from the word "own",123 that implies domination or humiliation of a rival, used primarily in the Internet gaming culture to taunt an opponent who has just been soundly defeated. Past tense is ...

jilly_magda in 50 Book Challenge : jilly_magda's sultry past reads (Aug 13, 2008, 6:47pm)

... 6. Clubbing / Andi Watson and Josh Howard 7. Celebrating the Crone: rituals and stories / Ruth Gardner 8. Xenocide / Orson Scott Card 9. After the funeral / Agatha Christie 10. The best of American erotica 2005 / Susie Bright 11. Strangers in paradise / Te ...

Doug1943 in Pro and Con : More wicked American exploitation of innocent Iraqis (Jul 21, 2008, 7:41pm)

... and dressing differently.... The Vagina Monologues was recently performed on stage in Pakistan to standing ovations.3 Such reports are rare in the Western press, which prefers its stereotypes simple: India, successful and forward-looking; Pakistan, a typical Islamic failure. The ...

horuskol in Science Fiction Fans : Mental Illness and Human Emotion (Jun 26, 2008, 9:01am)

Orson Scott Card's Xenocide has an interesting take, where future society uses a planet of savants who suffer from OCD to provide new science and solutions to other problems (although it isn't the main story) - of course, the savants have no idea (and neither do the major population) who ...

kaelirenee in Book talk : Name authors that after youve red them first, you had the urge to read EVERYTHING they wrote. (Mar 19, 2008, 10:28am)

... it after reading Lost Continent) Margaret Atwood Orson Scott Card (After Ender's Game...got over that after Xenocide) Marilyn Yalom Gregory Maguire-had to devour everything he wrote-only one disappointment in the lot Roald Dahl Nick Bantock Jasper Fforde

maggie1944 in Pro and Con : Homeschooling ruled illegal in California (Mar 9, 2008, 5:31pm)

... anti-communism, corporatism, populism, collectivism, autocracy and opposition to political and economic liberalism.1234567" (lifted from Wikicyclopedia) Representative Democracy is not an authoritarian political ideology. The government of the US is not, as of now, attempting ...

monohex in The Green Dragon : HAPPY LEAP DAY!! (Feb 29, 2008, 5:35pm)

Leaping in my backyard

Irisheyz77 in What Are You Reading Now? : Where did your LT name come from? (Feb 26, 2008, 9:14am)

... in 1960. A safrole-free variety is now used, with some claiming that it has a weaker flavor than the pre-1960 variety.3 There are hundreds of root beer brands in the United States, produced in every U.S. state,4 and there is no standardized recipe. The primary ingredient, sassafras, ...

defuzz in I See Dead People's Books : analysis of Thomas Jefferson's library (Feb 6, 2008, 12:00am)

... In the U.S. at the beginning of the nineteenth century, book sellers kept a print edition for sale for perhaps a decade.3 In both Britain and the U.S., book production, particularly that of fiction, grew strongly relative to macroeconomic trends from about 1780. In contrast, the number of ...

EstelleChauvelin in Science Fiction Fans : What are you reading Q1 '08? (Jan 4, 2008, 4:09pm)

... EG and its parallel telling in ES are Kids in Space with some thought-provoking stuff going on. Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind are much more about ethics and bioethics, whereas the later Shadow books are much more about international politics. They're all great ...

bookworm12 in What Are You Reading Now? : Has anyone read Ender's Game recently? (Dec 27, 2007, 9:36am)

... After that the books split off into two complete trilogies. One follows Ender and Valentine, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide and Children of the Mind. The other follows Peter, Bean and some of the other characters, Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets, Shadow of the Giant. I' ...

bookjones in Happy Heathens : The state of 'Intelligent Design' in Kansas (Nov 27, 2007, 2:52am)

--> 3 myshelves: It's even more lurid than that apparently, like "As the Creationist World Turns" or something. According to Wikipedia, "On December 5, 2005, Mirecki reported that he was accosted and beaten by two unidentified men. He was treated and released from Lawrence Memorial Hospita ...

clamairy in Happy Heathens : Peanut Butter DISPROVES Evolution! *smacks forehead* (Nov 16, 2007, 12:00pm)

... featured on several of the mainstream video websites in a similar vein to Ray Comfort's intelligently designed banana3 section the (self dubbed) "Atheists Nightmare". By his accordance, evolution doesn't exist because food, or anything else that used to be living, can't come back to life. ...

Doug1943 in Pro and Con : Chomsky and Zinn -- a survey (Nov 6, 2007, 5:07pm)

A factual question: Who here, who consider themselves liberal or progressive, has (1) heard of either or both of these men? (2) read anything by either or both? (3) been positively influenced by either or both? Chomsky is regularly voted the world's most popular public intellectual, ...

bookworm12 in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 3 November 2007 (Nov 3, 2007, 5:07pm)

... car let me know. My old car's name was Shadowfax. I did manage to finish The Boy next door which was my fluff book and Xenocide. After a million recommendations on LT I'm reading We need to talk about Kevin, which is great so far. Also still enjoying East of Eden at a leisurely pace. L ...

bookworm12 in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 3 November 2007 (Nov 2, 2007, 7:16pm)

I'm in the last few pages of Xenocide. I'm also still reading East of Eden and for a fun, light read, The Boy Next Door.

bookworm12 in What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 20 October 2007 (Oct 23, 2007, 6:41pm)

Good luck TeacherDad, that sounds like a handful. I'm currently reading Xenocide, one of the last few Enders books I haven't read. I love being reintroduced to old characters I love. I'm also still reading East of Eden and Bel Canto. The former has been one I've really been savoring ...

audiogeek in Audiobooks : What Are You Listening To Now? Part 2 (Sep 17, 2007, 2:47pm)

... to about an hour of that, and then thought maybe I should have stuck with the Ender Saga so I was going to listen to Xenocide. But then ended up listening to Twilight by Stephanie Meyer. :-/ *Touchstone for Twilight didn't seem to be working. The best it could do was New Moon, ...

zcannon in Book talk : List ten books that... (Sep 11, 2007, 8:57am)

... The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley Magic's Pawn by Mercedes Lackey The Music of Dolphins by Karen Hesse Xenocide by Orson Scott Card

Jim53 in Science Fiction Fans : The fantasy that science fiction readers read... (Aug 17, 2007, 5:15pm)

... is the high-water mark for literary SF. I would say that it's SF that uses lots of fantasy elements. #67> I found Xenocide and Children of the Mind just about unreadable. I struggled through them because SftD was so good, but I don't remember them well at all. It seems as if he ...

mzonderm in List Five Books Parlour Game : One word says it all... (Aug 17, 2007, 1:28pm)

... Ann Patchett Tipperary by Frank Delaney Voyager by Diana Gabaldon Wish by Melina Gerosa Bellows Xenocide by Orson Scott Card Guilty! I missed the part about no proper noun. But I think I still have 28 valid titles... (also had to fix some touchstones)

klarusu in 50 Book Challenge : Claire's Book List (Mar 12, 2007, 5:07am)

10. Xenocide by Orson Scott Card

Busifer in The Green Dragon : Have you ever continued a series... (Feb 22, 2007, 3:46am)

... I've quit - The Ender Saga. Loved Ender's Game, thought Speaker for the Dead OK, and nearly did not manage to finish Xenocide. Bought the fourth but has yet to open it up. Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy. I thought the first one funny, but I cannot remember if I ever finished the ...

Busifer in The Green Dragon : Series that started well but then devolved into bunches of "eh." (Jan 11, 2007, 4:00pm)

... a town which I found VERY un-Ricey, appro pos #2 etc.), went on to read Speaker for the Dead and though it OK, then on to Xenocide, which I hardly could bring myself to finish. Bought Children of the Mind anyway but have never been able to start reading it. IMHO he should have left it with ...

GeorgiaDawn in The Green Dragon : Series that started well but then devolved into bunches of "eh." (Jan 11, 2007, 1:58pm)

#10 - There are several books in the "Ender Series". Ender's Game Speaker for the Dead Xenocide Children of the Mind Then you have the "Shadow Series". Ender's Shadow - parallel novel to Ender's Game Shadow of the Hegemon Shadow Puppets Shadow of the Giant There ...

persky in FAQ : exporting data (Jan 7, 2007, 2:22am)

... script, indent the two lines following the if statement and put brackets around the x*2 (which currently touchstones to Xenocide -- a good read, but not what I meant)) c.f. Learning Python.

persky in FAQ : exporting data (Jan 7, 2007, 2:09am)

... s.argv0) sys.exit() data = open(sys.argv1).read() fp = open(sys.argv2,"w") map(fp.write, map(lambda x: datax*2, xrange(1, len(data)/2))) fp.close()

Busifer in Awful Lit. : Jumping the Bookworm (Dec 5, 2006, 12:34pm)

... Also, I can possibly stand Speaker for the dead, the sequel to Ender's game, but after that it's just too much (Xenocide and Children of the Mind). I know a lot of people disagree with me, but this is how I feel. I'm undecieded on Tehanu, the late addition to the Earthsea-trilo ...

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