Xenocide
by Orson Scott Card · first published 1991
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On Lusitania, Ender finds a world where humans and pequeninos and the Hive Queen could all live together. However, Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus that kills all humans it infects, but which the pequeninos require in order to become adults. The Starways Congress so fears the effects of the descolada, should it escape from Lusitania, that they have ordered the destruction of the entire planet, and all who live there. With the Fleet on its way, a second xenocide seems inevitable.
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As a religious person reading Orson Scott Card's Xenocide (Part of the Enders game universe, but not at all like Enders Game) really impacted me. In it you have a father who is a religious leader and transitions out of the religion to a more atheistic view…
on “Ask HN: Which books have made you introspect?” ↗For what changed my outlook on life? Xenocide - Orson Scott Card. The 3rd book in the Ender's Game saga, it spend a lot of time exploring how people with fundamentally different perceptions and interpretations of the world around them led them to…
on “Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about almost everything?” ↗Surely nothing can top the latter half of Orson Scott Card's Xenocide.
on “Are we alone? Tiny spacecraft will head to Alpha Centauri to find out” ↗Sounds like an Orson Scott Card plot from Xenocide i.e. Descolada.
on “Plants talk to each other using an internet of fungus” ↗…loving, can seem violent or insane when the observer lacks the proper 'frame'. One great example of this, if you're a fan of Orson Scott Card, is the humans struggling to understand the Pequeninos in Xenocide, the 3rd book in the Ender's Game series. This is why, when I hear the statement was made in the context of a MMORPG, it immediately alters my opinion on whether Justin had mens rea (criminal intent)…
on “The 19-year-old jailed for the crime of sarcasm” ↗