Sunday, July 22, 2012

Xenocide

     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.
     But Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus that kills all humans it infects, but which the pequininos require in order to transform into adults.  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, and all who live there.  The fleet is on it's way, and a second Xenocide seems inevitable.
     Until the fleet vanishes.
     The task of discovering how the ships were made to disappear falls to Gloriously Bright, the most brilliant analytical mind in a world of people bred to superintelligence.  There is little doubt that she can solve the puzzle; but will she choose life or death for the three races that live on Lusitania?

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Hush, Hush fans?

Has anybody read the Hush, Hush books by Becca Fitzpatrick?  I first found out about them when I saw a publicity poster for the first book at the school here in Turkey; they must be pretty popular if they're being translated into Turkish.  I don't know much about them, beyond Amazon blurbs, but they look similar to the Twilight series, at least in that they're about love and non-human beings.  Any takers?

Sunday, July 1, 2012

Re-Reading. Should books be re-read?

This post in particular is not about any one book, but whether or not books should be re-read.  Do you re-read books?  Why or why not?