Amazon description: 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.

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Postal RABCK.

Received as a RABCK from Firegirl; thanks a bunch. I have recently completed the first two books in the Ender saga and I'm looking forward to continuing with this one.

I really enjoyed the way Orson Scott Card developed this next entry in the Ender Wiggin Saga. There isn't alot of "action" and Ender actually plays a very small role in the overall story but the whole thing flows so naturally and effortlessly. I have found a copy of Children of the Mind so that I can finish off this set of books and then I shall read the parallel series as well. For someone who never read much science fiction I seem to have developed a real taste for it now. Orson Scott Card is a masterful writer in any genre though, so maybe I shouldn't be surprised.

Will probably relay, RABCK or trade this one rather than wild release.

Offerred as a wishlist RABCK to dolphin-au and in the mail to Australia via economy mail today.

This was sent as a true RABCK! Thank you very much knitwit. I'll read it soon, and I'll offer it to uriba, whom I have just sent Speaker for the dead.

The more I read of Orson Scott Card the less I like him. It's a shame that he is such a skillful writer, and has such clever ideas for his plots, otherwise it would be easy and I would just stop reading his books. Now I have to keep reading his books because they are so intriguing, and I have to put up with being continuously annoyed. I don't like his patronising way of writing and his ultra conservative morals. He doesn't give you an inch of trying ot make up your own mind about the ethical dilemmas his characters are facing.
I've got 'Shadow of the Hegemon' on Mt TBR, but I think I will leave it for a while. At the moment I don't really feel up to reading any more by this pompous author. I don't even know I will read the next volume in the Ender Wiggins saga. Sorry knitwit, that I can't be any more positive about this book. I still appreciate it that you went to the trouble of sending this book all the way to Australia!