

The question is, what will she do with the information?”īook Length: 608 pages (Tor mass market edition)Īwards and Achievements: Nominee: 1992 Hugo Award There is no doubt that Gloriously Bright will discover the answer to the puzzle. It is to her that the Starways Congress turn with the mystery of the disappearance of the Lusitania Fleet. Among the god spoken is a young girl named, in The language of her people, Gloriously Bright. The godspoken of Path have given their loyalty and service to the Starways Congress. They have evolved a caste known as the godspoken, people of superior intellectual abilities who pay a terrible price for their gifts. On a distant world called Path live a people whose culture owes much to that of ancient China on Earth. A fourth intelligence, loyal to Ender and Lusitania caused that fleet to disappear. The Starways Congress decided that The descolada should be wiped out once and for all, and sent a fleet, armed with a planet-destroying weapon, to do it. But on Lusitania there is also the descolada, a virus deadly to human beings which would spread like wildfire throughout the Stairways Congress should it ever escape the planet. “On the world Lusitania there are now three sapient races-the Pequeninos, who evolved there Humans, who came to colonize and a Hive Queen and her children brought by Ender long years ago. Release Date: August 1991 (First Edition)ĭescription: Xenocide is the direct sequel to Ender in Exile, although it was originally published as a sequel to Speaker for the Dead.
