The war for survival of the planet Lusitania will be fought in the heart
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
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. The Fleet is on its way, a second
xenocide seems inevitable.
Xenocide is the third novel in Orson Scott Card's The Ender Saga.