Ender's Game · Book 3
Xenocide
- Published
- 1 January 1991
- Pages
- 569
- ISBN-13
- 9781857238587
- Type
- novel
About this book
At 569 pages, Xenocide is the longest book in the core series; Card published it in 1991 as the third entry, deepening the moral crisis Speaker for the Dead set in motion around Ender and the alien species he's come to know.
Its place in Ender's Game
Xenocide is book 3 in the Ender's Game series. It follows Speaker for the Dead. It is followed by Children of the Mind. See the full Ender's Game reading order.
Andrew "Ender" Wiggin is six years old when he's recruited into Battle School, an orbiting military academy built to find and train the child who can save humanity from a third invasion by the alien "Buggers." Ender is a prodigy the adults running the program are willing to isolate, manipulate and break in order to shape into a commander — and the story is as much about what that does to a brilliant, lonely child as it is about the tactical war games he keeps winning. The final twist of Ender's Game…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780712647748
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9782221073841
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780712647731