![]() Later, Libo finds out what Pipo discovered-and the piggies deal with him in the same way. Novinha, terrified, destoys her records and retreats into a shell. The scientists circumspectly investigate the baffling Lusitanian ecology and the piggies' place in it, making little progress-until Pipo has a brain storm one night and rushes out into the rain to confront the piggies.who promptly murder him as part of a weird ritual. ![]() ![]() So, to prevent the destruction of the technologically primitive but socially complex piggies, Starways Congress declares them off-limits to all but a few specialists: biologist Pipo, his son Libo, and Libo's emotionally crippled girlfriend Novinha. Three thousand years after "Ender" Wiggin destroyed the alien "buggers," another intelligent alien species turns up: the "piggies" of Lusitania-a planet already colonized by various Portuguese-speaking religious sects. ![]() A superficial, intermittently absorbing alien-contact puzzler-and long-range sequel to Card's child-soldier yam Ender's Game (1984). ![]()
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