Xenocide

by Orson Scott Card

Xenocide by Orson Scott Card was a finalist or poll selection for the 1992 Hugo Award for Best Novel and the 1992 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.

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.

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Finalist, 1992 Hugo Award for Best Novel · Source ↗

Locus poll selection, 1992 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel · Source ↗