Talk:Xenocide

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Contents 1 "There are very few her discovery and termination" 2 Comparison with other fiction 3 Origin of name 4 Cancelled Videogame? 5 Origin of name 6 Article Split 7 children of the mind 8 Critical reception? 9 Philotic connections? 10 AI?

[edit] "There are very few her discovery and termination"

Something is missing from this sentence. Is it about Jane?

[edit] Comparison with other fiction

Young boys recruited to save the Earth from Alien forces, huh? If you exchange the spaceships with Giant Walking Gears, you get the japanese Neon Genesis Evangelion series. And inspired by that, you get the 1997 Playstation game Xenogears. Mere coincidence? ;)

That's the plot of the original book in the series, Ender's Game (This is the third book in the series, Xenocide) -- although in Ender's game *both* girls and boys were recruited. →Raul654 02:51, Aug 30, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Origin of name

Did Card made up this word, or did the neologism already exist before his novel? --Lowellian 07:07, Oct 3, 2004 (UTC)

See here.--Skyfiler 19:39, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

In other words, Card claims to have coined the word, which means he never knowingly saw it in use anywhere else before he used it. However, that article was written on April Fools Day 2004, so who knows. It follows pretty simply from "xenobiology" and "xenobiological entities." However, the definition as given in the article should be "the act of making extinct an alien species, analogous to genocide of a race." Xenocide is technically genocide, since a line of genes is wiped out, (regicide is also homicide), but since genocide usually refers to the extinction of a race, not an entire species, it is analogous. --205.201.141.146 22:40, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cancelled Videogame?

I remember seeing a very early preview blurb for a videogame called Xenocide in PC Gamer magazine years and years ago, with a description sounding very familiar to the plot of the Ender Series. Does anyone know anything about this? NEMT 06:06, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps this? --MightyGiant (talk) 21:07, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Origin of name

I pretty sure the name stems from the greek word "xeno" and the latin word "cide" like homicide or xenophobia.

Im pretty sure that in this case, xeno come from Portuguese, meaning species or something similar. --Mooseberry 05:23, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Article Split

I think this ought to be split into two articles, one concerning the Scott-Card novel and another concerning the term xenocide in other works of fiction. Xenocide takes place in innumberable works of science fiction, not limited to the expanded universe of Star Wars, Star Trek, and Warhammer 40000. The Imperium in WH40K is very xenophobic and commits unrestricted slaughter of other races whenever permited. I just think that this matter needs consideration.

[edit] children of the mind

why isnt there a article on the last book??

There is. Children of the Mind QueenStupid 15:19, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Critical reception?

What was the critical reception of the book? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.191.17.168 (talk) 02:08, 24 February 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Philotic connections?

The article doesn't say a work about faster-than-light travelling, nor does it talk about the "Outside" and "Inside" universes. These are important facts in the plot of Xenocide. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.48.117.26 (talk) 04:18, 10 March 2007 (UTC).

[edit] AI?

Can Jane be considered AI? Although her knoledge is limeted by the computers she inhabits she does have an Aiua.

-Kitfistorulz

Probably not, Jane's intelligence was not artificial. 165.248.247.138 (talk) 01:32, 9 April 2008 (UTC)