![]() ![]() Plus, with so much history behind it, Xenocide reads at a frenetic pace, just trying to “beat the clock” of an almost assured planetary destruction. In this sense, the whole story is a multi-book epic so well-written that no detail or specific piece of continuity is overlooked. While Xenocide is not nearly the end of the series, as made clear by the astounding twist near the end, it does pull enough unresolved threads from Ender’s Game and Speaker for the Dead to create the next segment of the story. I appreciate what Card has done by creating a multi-book narrative that requires the reader to have started from the very beginning of the story. ![]() In this sense, the tight intertwining of Xenocide with its predecessors makes it difficult to separate and review by itself. Picking up where Speaker for the Dead left off, Xenocide adds a powerful adversary while also tying plot points back to the first book in the series. Written in 1991, Card’s Xenocide deepens and furthers the continuing adventure of Ender Wiggin that he began back in Ender’s Game. Wells were well ahead of their time in their science fiction writing, Orson Scott Card once again shows that he understood some of the key concepts of our universe. ![]()
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