Xenocide Author:Orson Scott Card On Lusitania Ender found a world where humans and pequininos and the Hive Queen could all live together, where 3 very different intelligent species could find common ground at last. Or so he thought. But Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus which kills all humans it infects, but which the pequininos require in order to transform into ad... more »ults. The Starways Congress so fears the effect of the descolada, should it escape from Lusitania, that they have ordered the destruction of the entire planet.« less