Xenocide

The term Xenocide is a science fiction neologism that means an act of genocide directed towards an alien species.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Xenocide is the third novel in the Ender's Game series of books by Orson Scott Card.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Following the events of Speaker for the Dead, we find Ender, a member of a human colony on the planet Lusitania, which is unique in human space in that it is inhabited by two other sentient species: the Pequeninos, and the Hive (transplanted to this world by Ender in part penance for his near-total destruction of their species in Ender's Game).

Science fiction: Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology upon society and persons as individuals. In common with most fiction, science fiction is written mainly to entertain people. The borders of this genre are not well defined, and the...

Neologism: :For the Wikipedia guideline, see...

Genocide: Genocide is the systematic killing of substantial numbers of people on the basis of ethnicity, religion, political opinion, social status or other particularity. The most widely known example is the Holocaust of 6 million Jews during World War II; although the Nazis also killed millions of Christian...