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- Enthralling and disturbing but yet again captivating.
- absorbing and well written
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Kisscut: A Novel
Karin Slaughter
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When police chief Jeffrey Tolliver responds to a disturbance at a local skating rink, the last thing he expects is to have to shoot a 13-year-old girl who's holding a gun on a fellow student. Then Jenny Deaver's autopsy reveals two stunning facts: she did not bear the murdered newborn discovered in the rink's restroom, and she had recently been genitally mutilated. With his ex-wife, pediatrician Sara Linton, Jeffrey uncovers a child sex and pornography ring involving Jenny, her classmates, and their mothers--a horrific enterprise that culminated in the killing that Tolliver will never be able to forget. This taut, chilling thriller showcases Karin Slaughter's skill at plotting, pace, and narrative, and will linger in the reader's mind long after the stunning denouement. This is a terrific sequel to her debut, Blindsighted, with two protagonists whose complex relationship will no doubt be a featured subplot in her next offering. --Jane Adams
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Saturday night dates at the skating rink have been a tradition in the small southern town of Heartsdale for as long as anyone can remember, but when a teenage quarrel explodes into a deadly shoot-out, Sara Linton -- the town's pediatrician and medical examiner -- finds herself entangled in a terrible tragedy.
What seemed at first to be a horrific but individual catastrophe proves to have wider implications. The autopsy reveals evidence of long-term abuse, of ritualistic self -mutilation, but when Sara and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver start to investigate, they are frustrated at every turn.
The children surrounding the victim close ranks. The families turn their backs. Then a young girl is abducted, and it becomes clear that the first death is linked to an even more brutal crime, one far more shocking than anyone could have imagined. Meanwhile, detective Lena Adams, still recovering from her sister's death and her own brutal attack, finds herself drawn to a young man who might hold the answers. But unless Lena, Sara, and Jeffrey can uncover the deadly secrets the children hide, it's going to happen again...
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When a teen brawl turns deadly in the small southern town of Heartsdale, pediatrician Sara Linton and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver investigate; but the kids close ranks, and the families won't talk. Until it happens again..Saturday night dates at the skating rink have been a tradition in the small southern town of Heartsdale for as long as anyone can remember, but when a teenage quarrel explodes into a deadly shoot-out, Sara Linton -- the town's pediatrician and medical examiner -- finds herself entangled in a terrible tragedy. What seemed at first to be a horrific but individual catastrophe proves to have wider implications. The autopsy reveals evidence of long-term abuse, of ritualistic self -mutilation, but when Sara and police chief Jeffrey Tolliver start to investigate, they are frustrated at every turn. The children surrounding the victim close ranks. The families turn their backs. Then a young girl is abducted, and it becomes clear that the first death is linked to an even more brutal crime, one far more shocking than anyone could have imagined. Meanwhile, detective Lena Adams, still recovering from her sister's death and her own brutal attack, finds herself drawn to a young man who might hold the answers. But unless Lena, Sara, and Jeffrey can uncover the deadly secrets the children hide, it's going to happen again...
Customer Reviews:
Enthralling and disturbing but yet again captivating........2007-03-02
The most disturbing and difficult subject of all the Grant series, but covered well I felt. The fact that I can relate to the main characters (whilst having just about nothing in common with them) shows Slaughters talent.
Lena, who most of the time I think I don't like, has SO many issues, yet her feelings are described so well that she's believable and for a hard nut, does at least get some of my sympathy. I found her 'therapy' at the end of this book very touching.
absorbing and well written.......2006-11-25
One of the best authors I've read in years. Totally intriguing. The problems of the characters make them more real. Bad things really to happen to good people. Maybe so many bad thins does push it a bit, but the characters careers and personalities make them high risk and in the line of fire. Her books are best enjoyed if read in sequence. I love all the characters, feast on every detail of their lives, the plots are awesome, yes graphic, shocking at times and horrific, but that is the whole point of crime thrillers! I will read every book she writes and eagerly and impatiently await the next. I can't recommend this author enough.
Edgy crime drama with human side.......2006-11-10
Karin Slaughter has yet again hit a good balance of murder mystery intrigue and underlying human relationships. Enjoyable.
Tsk, Tsk.......2006-03-30
First of all there is no such word in Websters and I do agree with some of the other reviewers. I did read Blindsighted and found much repeated word for word from that. The people in charge of solving this do indeed have too too many personal problems and not enough swapping of information. When the doc hears something, she doesn't know what they are talking about as no information was given her by the detectives. After all she was at the scene of most the crimes and should have been given a better handle on it. Then I hate the way the perps get away with stuff right under the noses of the surveilance. This author sure leaves you dangling.
Wow.......2006-02-27
This book was outstanding and completely creepy at the same time. I truly enjoy Ms. Slaughter's books and look forward to the next in her series.
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- That ending... YUCK.
- Spectacular Sci-Fi
- The "Chinese" Accent Unbearable
- The book that divide the waters
- Fantastic book!
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Xenocide (Ender, Book 3)
Orson Scott Card
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Orson Scott Card's Xenocide is a space opera with verve. In this continuation of Ender Wiggin's story, the Starways Congress has sent a fleet to immolate the rebellious planet of Lusitania, home to the alien race of pequeninos, and home to Ender Wiggin and his family. Concealed on Lusitania is the only remaining Hive Queen, who holds a secret that may save or destroy humanity throughout the galaxy. Familiar characters from the previous novels continue to grapple with religious conflicts and family squabbles while inventing faster-than-light travel and miraculous virus treatments. Throw into the mix an entire planet of mad geniuses and a self-aware computer who wants to be a martyr, and it's hard to guess who will topple the first domino. Due to the densely woven and melodramatic nature of the story, newcomers to Ender's tale will want to start reading this series with the first books, Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead. --Brooks Peck
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The war for survival of the planet Lusitania will be fought in the hearts of a child named Gloriously Bright.On Lusitania, Ender found a world where humans and pequininos and the Hive Queen could all live together; where three very different intelligent species could find common ground at last. Or so he thought.Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus that kills all humans it infects, but which the pequininos require in order to become adults. The Startways Congress so fears the effects of the descolada, should it escape from Lusitania, that they have ordered eh destruction of the entire planet, and all who live there. The Fleet is on its way, a second xenocide seems inevitble.
Customer Reviews:
That ending... YUCK........2007-09-16
I loved this book. It had been so long since I read the first two ender books, I forgot how much I really like Card. This book was gripping, thought-provoking, character-driven (a rare thing in sf), well-written... and then that stinker of an ending. Hyperspace is a common phenomenon in sf books, and I'm willing to buy it as there is currently no was to surpass the speed of light and obey the laws of physics. However, in Xenocide's hyperspace, wishes come true. Yes, really. While your ship is in hyperspace (called 'Outside' in the book) you simply have to wish for something and it will become reality. This allows for facile and annoyingly neat and tidy resolutions to the major conflicts in the book. The biologist wishes for a cure to the killer adaptable virus... KA-ZAM! It appears. The cripple wishes to be healed. SHA-POW! He walks. A cure to a unique, man-made form of OCD is wished for and... you guessed it, TA-DA! There it is. Ender's bizarre subconscious wish to resurrect his brother seems to be the only interesting side effect of this deus-ex-machina, until we realize that it's nothing but a convenient way for the author to take care of congress (and the servant girl wang-mu).
Spectacular Sci-Fi.......2007-09-02
The Ender's Game series, including Xenocide, is simply genius: plot, character, psychology, metaphysics, imagination, dream science. After C. S. Lewis' _Space Trilogy_ this is the first science fiction I could tolerate- most others being just too hopeless, nasty, and well, kid's stuff.
Clarke's _Childhood's End_ a rather more distant third- as Clarke stops short of dealing with the most difficult issues of "Why the humans?", and "What is humanity's destiny now?"
Mr. Card seems to have a personal worldview which empowers him to write from great strength of conviction to convice us that there IS a plan. Such a titan of a series!
The "Chinese" Accent Unbearable.......2007-07-24
I am a huge fan of the Ender's Saga. I am a fan of this book. I am not, however, a fan of this audio recording. Given my constant traveling, I picked up some of the Ender's Saga audio books for old time's sake.
Being of Chinese descent, I am extremely offended at the "Chinkiness" of the voices of Path who were obviously performed non-native Chinese speakers. Qing-jao's voice was especially the case. It is hard to believe such a recent recording would include something so stereotypical and offensive. Keep in mind, despite the 'multi-cultural' characters comprising the series, there were no other noticeable accents in the readings- no Samoan accents, Japanese accents, Portuguese / Hispanic accents... Not even the Pequeninos had accents! The only accents came from Path, and they were horrible. It was as if I were living 30 years ago where every Asian had to be Chinese and we all Kung-Fu. This was a very backwards recording that still upsets me just thinking about it.
If you can live through the accents and not feel as offended as I was, I have no complaints about the contents of the book. It is a story that should be experienced, one way or another.
The book that divide the waters.......2007-06-30
Before continuing let me state that i have given both Enders' game and Speaker for the Dead 5 stars and are among my absolute favorites in Sci.Fi. Maybe it is because i rarely read Sci.Fi that i do not share the dame view on the third and (inaccurately) "last" book in the "trilogy" One thing is for sure, while the community and most readers agree that the first two books are classical in the genre, in fact in comtemporary literature itself, the third book really divides the waters with some readers purely disgusted and others enormously thrilled. Xenocide did not win any prices, and for that i agree with the community.
Card tries, really tries, to deliver a novel of even more vast proportions than the previous two, and he tries to spin a story of the fundaments of the entire universe, humanity, and religion but he just doenst succeed....
It is a fine novel, a good read, and better than everage of Sci.Fi in my opinion, but is does not deliver the closure or the desired ending to the story of Ender as i had anticipated. It is also a more difficult novel, and Kudos to Card for trying to write something as Xenocide.
My three stars are given purely for the one brilliant thing in this novel, Card's take on religion and what it means. The religious nature of the people of the path really leaves you at first disguted and you dig out a copy of Nietzche's "thus spoke zarathustra" cause you relly come into the mood of reading critical works about religion, but in the end card delivers a cunning and surprising 'punchline that sums the whole concept up, without revealing too much he is picturing the individuality in religion and the diversity, and proves that it may well be the savior for some, while being the ruin of others. Religion neither builds us up as people, or can be blaimed for hindering our developments, it is purely a product of our individuality, and for that philosophical drame i could easily read the book over again.
That being said, thats all the book has going for it, that and the dilemma in which Enders "followers" (he is becoming more and more a "jesus" character) while maybe having to destroy one race in order to allow another to live. All in all, the book is a must read if you read the two previous books, but im stopping here, from here on with the rest of the books, the "shadow Saga" and the latest publications it is becoming too much of a cash cow for me and reminds me of the unfortunate fate of many brilliant fantasy saga's such as Dragonlance and wheel-of-time that has been going on and on and on while only a minor proportion of them being of excellent quality.
All in all a big thank you to Card for creating the Ender Saga, whether you wanna call it a trilogy, a quartet, or a duology is purely individual, in the spirit of Card himself
Fantastic book!.......2007-05-30
Ignore all the negative reviews about this book being far-fetched. It's science fiction... it's supposed to be far-fetched. Card's representation about souls and alternate universes are his way of showing what one of his theories entails. Aren't the stories told in the bible far-fetched? People are so quick to refute Card's ideas based on the fact that they are inconceivable but many people are sold that a person can heal by touch, walk on water, etc. no questions asked. Have an open mind and you will enjoy the book.
Orson Scott Card is a great author and presents his ideas in an intriguing manner. This book was awesome. While these other people are upset about the fact that Peter and Valentine are spawned by Ender's sub-consious, I was fascinated. As the story progressed I became more and more intrigued and wanted to know more and more and more. I found myself predicting what I thought might happen with Ender's "children" and hoping that the plot would turn take certain turns. Great reading!
This book, in combination with the rest of the Ender saga, was amazing and tells a fascinating story!
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- Beyond Ender's Game (3 books)
- Not worth the purchase
- More in Sci-fi, but less in strategy (sometimes brilliant but sometimes...)
- Read one you will rember this is it
- The Intrigue Continues
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Beyond Ender's Game: Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind
Orson Scott Card
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Release Date: 2001-09-27 |
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Beyond Enders Boxed Mass Market Set
Contains: Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide and Children of the Mind
Speaker for the Dead:
In the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: The Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War.
Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but again the aliens' ways are strange and frightening...again, humans die. And it is only the Speaker for the Dead, who is also Ender Wiggin the Xenocide, who has the courage to confront the mystery...and the truth.
Xenocide:
The war for survival of the planet Lusitania will be fought in the hearts of a child named Gloriously Bright.
On Lusitania, Ender found a world where humans and pequininos and the Hive Queen could all live together; where three very different intelligent species could find common ground at last. Or so he thought.
Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus that kills all humans it infects, but which the pequininos require in order to become adults. The Startways Congress so fears the effects of the descolada, should it escape from Lusitania, that they have ordered eh destruction of the entire planet, and all who live there. The Fleet is on its way, a second xenocide seems inevitble.
Children of the Mind:
The planet Lusitania is home to three sentient species: the Pequeninos; a large colony of humans; and the Hive Queen, brought there by Ender. But once against the human race has grown fearful; the Starways Congress has gathered a fleet to destroy Lusitania.
Jane, the evolved computer intelligence, can save the three sentient races of Lusitania. She has learned how to move ships outside the universe, and then instantly back to a different world, abolishing the light-speed limit. But it takes all the processing power available to her, and the Starways Congress is shutting down the Net, world by world.
Soon Jane will not be able to move the ships. Ender's children must save her if they are to save themselves.
Customer Reviews:
Beyond Ender's Game (3 books).......2007-08-24
Read them! Kids and adults alike! You will love them. Be sure you read "Ender's Game" first. One of my all-time favorites! (I'm 68 years old.)
H. in Texas
Not worth the purchase.......2007-05-15
By the end of Ender's Game, the Ender story feels complete. Author Card may have agreed, as the following stories take Ender and his tale in an entirely new direction. If you just stick to Ender's Game, you won't feel at a loss. These stories feel extraneous and the characters are too certain of their own righteousness to be believable.
More in Sci-fi, but less in strategy (sometimes brilliant but sometimes...).......2007-02-28
I have read the whole ender series, but with a strange sequence which may have affected the way I view the different books in the series. The first book I have read was the Shadow of the Hegemon, thanks to a tourist that had left it in the library of a hotel in Skiathos island. This book got me hooked, but it confused me also as I didn't know if I should start reading the next books or the previous ones.
The general pattern in the whole series is:
The beginning book is Ender's Game. Then we have two subcategories, one the Shadow series (which, with the exception of the first book, take place on earth and are more within military strategy) and one the Ender series (which take place in space and are more into new sci-fi ideas). Shadow series probably can be read from everyone, while I guess that the Ender series (especially from Speaker for the Dead onwards) would be read mainly from sci-fi fans.
Below are my comments for the books of the series, in the order I have read them and a marking (10 is the highest mark):
Shadow of the Hegemon: The first book I have read, and which I could not leave from my hands. I finished it in 2 days. It was fast paced action, very smart plot and after reading it I believed that Orson Scot Card (OSC) has invented/re-invented a new genre of literature. That of military strategy and adventure combined with brilliance/mind games and hidden portions of romance. Such books always existed but this seemed to be THE book. It was like the way Dan Brown re-invented books with trivials and puzzles, together with fast paced adventure. I strongly recommend it to everybody that likes such type of books. (mark: 10)
Shadow puppets: The sequel to the above. I found it interesting but somehow boring as the above story developed little and the focus was on the characters (maybe too much focus so that it seemed to me that it was slightly mumbling jumbling. Strategy, brilliance and adventure seemed to be very low here. I would not recommend it for anybody to read it in isolate, unfortunately you have to read it if you want to go to the next book. I really believe that OSC made a mistake here (deliberately or not) as this book should have been told in 50-60 pages and be included in the previous or the next book. (mark: 6 but you will read it because you will want to read Shadow of the Giant)
Shadow of the Giant: (see below)
Ender's game: A really great book to read, probably the best of the series, however, as I had read its sequels first, when I reached the 80% of this book, I had predicted the end. However, it's at the highest standards of sci-fi, military strategy, adventure, brilliant mind games and very good depth in the human aspect of the characters. In comparison to the shadow series, it is more "space" sci-fi, while shadow series have much lesser sci-fi elements and are more down to earth. (mark: 10)
Speaker for the dead: Another great book, but different style. Less adventure, more human aspect, more maturity. Brilliance yes, but not military, sci-fi yes (some great ideas) but not spaceship style. (Mark: 9)
Xenocide: A good sequel of the previous novel. In certain points more brilliant, in other sections more boring, however is again a very good sci-fi book. The only flaw in these series (Speker for the dead, Xenocide, Children of the mind) is the idea behind one of the alien species described which I found outrageously extreme, however if you ignore it becomes first class reading. (Mark: 9)
Children of the mind: I think that OSC has wrapped up his case pretty badly in that one. It's a fair book except the fact that I felt that OSC mumbles jumbles for one third of the novel not having decided how to end it. In other critiques I have found it described as nice approach to moral dilemmas, however, moral dilemma is when you describe it once and make your choice, while here the dilemma is repeated and repeated... I felt like I was watching a movie worth 10 oscars and the end did not worth to be included even in a cheap video movie. And again, many open ends at the end (for possible sequels). (Mark: 7 but you will read it as you will be hooked from the previous ones).
Ender's shadow: Having read Enders Game and Shadow of the Hegemon, I found this book probably the best of the series, which of course is my subjective preference. I could characterize it as probably the best book I have read ever! Not to repeat myself, it has all that Shadow of the Hegemon and Ender's Game have, and even more...(Mark: the absolute 10).
Shadow of the Giant: When I read shadow puppets, I said, "that's it, OSC has lost either his talent or his appetite for good writing...", so I was pretty unwilling to read it. Fortunately I decided to, as it proved to be a good one, were I believe that OSC has nicely wrapped up his story, with two small flaws.
* The one is described below (its end needed to be slightly more complete) and,
* The other is the fact that although he describes certain smart battles, he does not focus enough on them as it seems that he is in a hurry to wrap all things up. It had all elements to become a masterpiece but it ended up being a good to read book (Mark: 9)
In general, both series have three categories of good stuff:
1) Some great sci-fi ideas (battle room, battle games, fantasy game, ansible, aia, Jane, in/out travel, raman varelse etc)
2) Great military strategy, mind games etc combined with adventure
3) In certain books, depth of characters, moral dilemmas etc
And two main bad stuff:
1) Mumbling jumbling in certain books which was completely unnecessary (either OSC wanted just to produce and sell another title - see shadow puppets- or he could not decide how the story will continue-see last book of Ender series).
2) One of the alien species described in the Ender series was so too outrageous even for sci-fi that made it look ridiculous. The idea behind it was brilliant in sci-fi terms, but he could try a different living organism...
Finally, OSC has left open ends in both series (probably for next sequels), however I believe that there are two things missing. a) the story of the Hive Queen and the Hegemon, told in a metaphorical manner so it means much for humanity. b) In ancient theatre, a story should end in a way that brings "katharsis" to the story, and the souls of the readers. I believe that the end of the shadow of the giant may be smart for commercial purposes but it was very unfair to the reader as it did not bring full "katharsis".
Read one you will rember this is it.......2007-02-03
I love this series if you like a good story this is the one . Follow the lives of thes childern see them save the world. These books are great for all ages I bought this set for two of my brothers and there wifes. All have enjoyed them emensly.
The Intrigue Continues.......2007-01-15
You don't want to be left wondering do you? The imagination is fed and the enjoyment is even richer with this second series.
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Xenocide
Orson Scott Card
Manufacturer: Tor Books
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000VFZ6PS |
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It's the size of the mass market paperback, but encased in hinged hardcover binding.
Average customer rating:
- Fine YA adventure with interesting speculation about alien races
- A great mission
- A Great Mission
- Quick action and a complex plot
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The Xenocide Mission
Ben Jeapes
Manufacturer: David Fickling Books
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Release Date: 2002-05-14 |
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Space opera is back with a bang!
Lieutenant Joel Gilmore is part of a space observation team who find themselves attacked by the very aliens they are watching. It becomes a race against time for their fellow soldiers to rescue them, but
in doing so, they unlock the shocking secrets of the solar system.
With thrilling action sequences and brilliantly characterized aliens, this science fiction novelist is one to watch–but be careful of the aliens. These are not Star Trek aliens with altered faces, but a glimpse of what really might be out there. . . .
Customer Reviews:
Fine YA adventure with interesting speculation about alien races.......2006-06-18
The Xenocide Mission, by Ben Jeapes, marketed as a Young Adult book, and works very well as such, though it is fully enjoyable foradults, in my view. (The lead characters include two humans in their early twenties, as well as a much older human, and an apparently much older alien.)
This novel opens on the joint Human/First Breed satellite called SkySpy, which is monitoring the fearsome aliens known as the Xenocides, or XCs, because they brutally exterminated the other intelligent species in their solar system. Young Joel Gilmore and his First Breed (or "Rustie") partner Boon Round are making an external repair when the XCs mount a surprise attack. The first priority is to ensure destruction of the computer banks and the removal of any chance of the XCs gaining FTL technology. Joel, thrust into a leadership role all of a sudden, heroically returns to the satellite with Boon Round while the rest of the survivors make their escape. Soon Joel and Boon Round are captives of the Xenocides.
One of the key Xenocides is Oomoing, a senior Mother of the Scientific Institute of one of their nations. She is summoned to SkySpy to study Joel and Boon Round. We learn that the Xenocides are fierce carnivores, and very warlike in basic orientation, but also that they are intelligent and not, on the face of it, xenocidal. Also, there is some strange mystery concerning the "Dead World", former home of the race the XCs exterminated. And as Oomoing tries to make peaceful contact with Joel and Boon Round, they get the chance to escape -- but only to the Dead World, and with Oomoing and another XC along.
Meanwhile, a rescue mission is organized from the Roving, home planet of the Commonwealth of Humans and First Breed. Joel Gilmore's father, Michael, a retired Commodore, and Joel's girlfriend, Marine Lieutenant Donna McCallum, in their different ways wangle themselves onto the mission. Once in XC space, the mission takes an unexpected turn, as the Xenocides attack and the Commonwealth ship is thrown into chaos by the treachery of an Earth-based observer and the only survivor of the race that formerly dominated the First Breed. (All this refers to back story which is presumably told in His Majesty's Starship.) Another xenocide is threatened, and so is the potential for cooperation among at least four alien races. Only if Joel, Boon Round, and Oomoing can come to terms with their mutually alien natures and work together to understand the mystery of the Dead World can this danger be averted.
This book is very enjoyable, a brisk, entertaining read, with some pretty neat alien races. It's a bit cynical about politics, both human and alien, but not in a hopeless way, rather a fairly realistic way. It might be too busy, with too many strange alien mysteries revealed, and too many plots within plots uncovered. Still, I liked it. It certainly might appeal to its intended audience of "Young Adults" -- and it will also appeal to adult readers of SF looking for a fine adventure story with some interesting speculation about alien races.
A great mission.......2003-04-17
"The Xenocide Mission" written by Ben Jeapes. In this book your imagination travels as you read and understand this thrilling and amazing book. This book is about an outer space mission, in which the crew of an asteroid, named SkySpy, have been sent to watch different life beings, whose technologies, and weapons are supreme or beyond than any of the Earth's. These extraterrestrial beings are called "Xenocides", but also known as "XCs". They are rich not only in technology, and weapons, but they are also aggressive to their enemies.
The "Big Scope" is one of the many surveillance equipment items, which goes around the SkySpy asteroid. The SkySpy is a secret base where Lieutenant Joel Gilmore, one of the main characters, works on the maintenance of the SkySpy. He was the first one to see the glowing white spots in the space, and he thought that some military strength laser was attacking them, but in fact the aliens they were supposed to watch were attacking them.
While you read throughout each page the action unfurls, such as battles, fights between the SkySpy crew, they get close to the XCs, and a lot more! Of course, with a peaceful ending.
My recommendations of this book goes to those that like stories of aliens, and outer space missions, mixed with mystery and a lot of action, that brings you not only to a different point of life, but also a different world.
A Great Mission.......2003-04-17
"The Xenocide Mission" written by Ben Jeapes. This is a book where your imagination travels as you read, and understand this thrilling, and amazing book. This book is about an out space mission, which the crew of an asteroid named SkySpy have been sent to watch some kind of different life beings, whose technologies, and weapons are supreme or beyond than any of the Earth's. These extraterrestrial beings are called "Xenocides", but also known as "XCs". They are rich not only in technology, and weapons, but they are also aggressive to their enemies.
The "Big Scope" is also one of the many surveillance equipment items, which goes around the SkySpy asteroid. The SkySpy is a supposedly secret base where Lieutenant Joel Gilmore is one of the main characters who work in the maintenance of the SkySpy. He was the only one who first saw the glowing white spots in the space, and then he thought that they were being attacked by some military strength laser, but the fact was that they was being attacked by the aliens they were supposed to watch.
While the days pass more action is coming throughout each page such as battles, fights between the SkySpy crew, then they get closely to the XCs, and a lot more! Of course, with a peaceful ending.
My recommendations of this book goes to the people who like stories of aliens, and out space missions mixed with mystery and a lot of action, which brings you not only to a different point of life, but also to a different world.
Quick action and a complex plot.......2002-08-09
The Xenocide Mission appears under a Random House young adult trademark but its complexity will lend to its enjoyment by many an adult science fiction reader, as well. Joel is part of a space observation team that is attacked by the aliens they are observing. Trapped and awaiting rescue, they find fresh, new and dangerous insights on the aliens they had investigated previously from outside. Quick action and a complex plot makes The Xenocide Mission recommended for older young adults into adults.
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4 Mass Market Paperback Titles in Ender Wiggins Series - Ender's Game - Speaker for the Dead - Xenocide - Children of the Mind
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All 9 books in the Ender Wiggin saga. In chronological order as published, they are: Ender's Game; Speaker for the Dead; Xenocide; Children of the Mind; Ender's Shadow; Shadow of the Hegemon; Shadow Puppets; Shadow of the Giant; First Meetings
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Ender Quartet (4 book series) published as mass market paperbacks.
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