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.
Key facts about Xenocide
Xenocide is a novel by Orson Scott Card. Readers have had it since 1991. It runs to 569 pages.
Our list holds 3 editions of Xenocide. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781857238587 to find the main one.
Xenocide is book 3 of 6 in the Ender's Game series. The series has 6 published books. However, the series starts with Ender's Game (1985). Ender in Exile is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 11 November 2008.
Additionally, Orson Scott Card writes Tales of Alvin Maker, Homecoming Saga and Ender's Shadow, plus 5 more series. Those series sit on our science fiction, fantasy and historical fiction shelves. Meanwhile, Master Alvin is the latest published Orson Scott Card book on file, from 28 April 2026.
About Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card is an American science fiction author best known for Ender's Game, a 1985 novel following a child military prodigy trained to command Earth's defense against an alien threat, which won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards and remains one of the most widely read science fiction novels of its era, particularly popular as an entry point for younger and reluctant readers. See every Orson Scott Card book in order.
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