Han and his daughter have a difference of opinion about whether the Starways Congress serves the gods and begin to drift apart.
Han Fei-tzu realizes that Congress gave the godspoken their intelligence in order to serve them and their OCD in order to control them. They are also artificially enhanced to be extraordinarily intelligent. According to her information, the godspoken were given genes that cause obsessive compulsive disorder but are taught that their compulsions are really the gods speaking.
She turns over evidence proving that Congress made genetic modifications to the original settlers on Path which live on in their descendants. In an effort to recruit Han and his daughter to the Lusitanian point of view, Jane turns up information that reveals that Congress has perpetrated unspeakable crimes against the citizens of Path. Inevitably, Han's daughter Gloriously Bright and her secret maid Si Wang-mu puzzle out the mystery of Jane's existence and, convinced that Jane must be working against the gods, Han's daughter alerts Congress and sets the wheels in motion that restore the fleet and will destroy Jane in several months. Starways Congress turns to the greatest of the godspoken, Han Fei-tzu, in order to find the culprit in the Lusitania fleet disappearance. Congress wastes no time in enlisting the help of the planet Path where the inhabitants believe that the intellectual and social elite are spoken to by the gods. Not until Congress gives the order to use the mass destruction device on Path does Jane actually make the fleet invisible by intercepting all its incoming and outgoing communications. Jane, has the power to stop the fleet from destroying Lusitania but by doing so must reveal her presence to the Starways Congress which is certain to retaliate with her destruction.
Having been sentenced to planet destruction by Starways Congress, humans on the Brazilian colony planet of Lusitania search for a way to avoid their fate and also to solve a host of other problems they are facing, not the least of which is the virulent descolada virus that infects the entire planet and is continually adapting itself in order to destroy humans and their fragile existence.įortunately for the inhabitants of Lusitania, they have a powerful ally named Jane, an entity more than three thousand years old who exists in the computer and ansible (long distance communication) networks. Over three thousand years have elapsed on Earth since the human-bugger wars detailed in the first novel, Ender's Game.
Xenocide continues Orson Scott Card's Speaker series and is a worthy sequel to the series' second novel, Speaker for the Dead.
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