History Literature / Xenocide

"This is my blood, which I shed for you. Drink in rememberance of me." Peter smiled. "This is a communion even ''I'' can take, unbaptized as I am."\\

* YouShouldKnowThisAlready: Lusitanian biology is made up of symbiotic plant and animal relationships. Piggies literally become trees, flies pollinate grass, etc.

* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Qing-jao's mother Jiang-qing; Jiang Qing and the "Gang of Four" are remembered fondly in Path's version of history.

* GeniusSerum: It becomes a major concern of the piqueino species that their intelligence is simply the byproduct of the descoloda virus infecting their world. This especially when the human scientists figure out a way to make a non-lethal version of the virus that would allow the piqueinos to safely leave their potentially doomed planet. [[MeaningfulName Human]] demands his friends remove the virus from his body, suffering in agony as its loss begins to kill him, but crucially remaining lucid and intelligent all the way to his end, proving the pequeinos are a sapient species in their own right.

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* YouShouldKnowThisAlready: Lusitanian biology is made up of symbiotic plant and animal relationships. Piggies literally become trees, flies pollinate grass, etc.

* IDieFree: After discovering that [[spoiler:the descolada virus is not native to Lusitania and may be responsible for pequenino evolution, Planter insists on being placed in the quarantine room where humans are cleansed of the descolada, so he can prove the virus is not what makes piggies sentient. Since his body still needs the descolada to live, though, he suffers the entire time, but dies glad that his mind is truly is own and not that of a parasite.]]

* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler: Outside solves all the major problems of the story, though it causes a few of its own]].

* GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke: [[spoiler: The "godspoken" of Path are hyperintelligent OCD sufferers.]]

-->Ela and her assistants simply brought several hundred sugar cubes impregnated with the viricide bacterium, and as many vials of the solution containing the recolada. They were passed among the congregation, and each of the pequeninos took the sugar cube, dissolved and swallowed it, and then drank off the contents of the vial.\\

* MissingMom: Han Qing-jao

* YouShouldKnowThisAlready: Lusitanian biology is made up of symbiotic plant and animal relationships. Piggies literally become trees, flies pollinate grass, etc.

* ScienceMarchesOn: Card did not predict correctly how searches for information would go. Waiting hours for information to turn up simply doesn't happen anymore; the problem is figuring out how to word your queries in such a way to turn up adequate information.

* TwoPartTrilogy: ''Literature/EndersGame'' began as a stand-alone short story, then was later expanded into a novel. The novel is also sufficiently stand-alone, but the final chapter does have a sequel hook that allows for a sequel if you choose to read it. The sequel also sits surprisingly well as a stand-alone conclusion to Ender's story, but also has a sequel hook if you want to tie up some below-the-surface loose ends. This is where it gets into TwoPartTrilogy country. ''Literature/{{Xenocide}}'' and ''Children of the Mind'', are far more connected than the previous books and were originally intended to be a single volume, but were broken off into two with a superficial cliffhanger between them. ''Children of the Mind'' returns to being a suitable conclusion, if you count [[spoiler: the main character Ender dying]], but only opens up the biggest cliffhanger in literature since ''Chapterhouse: Dune''. Like the {{Dune}} series, it's near impossible to differentiate between the overlapping {{Sequelitis}}, TwoPartTrilogy, and TrilogyCreep.

After the events of ''Literature/SpeakerForTheDead'', the human colony on Lusitania has cut ties with Starways Congress and is living openly with the Pequeninos and newly resurrected Formics. Not liking the rebellion and fearing that the deadly Descolada virus native to the planet might get off world, the Congress launches a fleet with the Little Doctor device on it. Ender and his friends have the fleet from arriving, eventually, in the next book. Plus other subplots.

The sequel to ''Literature/EndersGame'' and ''Literature/SpeakerForTheDead'', published in 1991 by Creator/OrsonScottCard.

!! ''Xenocide'' provides examples of:

After the events of ''Literature/SpeakerForTheDead'', the human colony on Lusitania has cut ties with Starways Congress and is living openly with the Pequeninos and newly resurrected Formics. Not liking the rebellion and fearing that the deadly Descolada virus native to the planet might get off world, the Congress launches a fleet with the Little Doctor device on it. Ender and his friends have the fleet from arriving, eventually, in the next book. Plus other subplots.