xenocide n.

the killing or attempted killing of an entire alien species; the killing of an individual alien; (also) a person who commits this act

Aliens

  • 1964 C. Anderson & M. Kurland Ten Years to Doomsday vi. 50 Chester Anderson Michael Kurland bibliography

    I don’t think I need to list the various crimes you and your Special Detail are engaged in committing. They range all the way from falsifying official records…to premeditated xenocide.

  • 1973 K. Von Gunden Price of Honor in Worlds of If Dec. 20/1 page image Kenneth Von Gunden bibliography

    Intelligent life forms whose technology is inferior to our own are not to be exploited or subjected to xenocide.

  • 1979 R. A. Freitas, Jr. Illegal Aliens in Omni Nov. 108/2 page image Robert A. Freitas, Jr. bibliography

    Lawmakers should define the crime of xenocide—the slaying of an extraterrestrial person by any other legal person. Xenocide could be committed with or without malice, intentionally, negligently, or accidentally.

  • 1986 O. S. Card Speaker for the Dead 39 Orson Scott Card bibliography

    Through these Nordic layers of foreignness we can see that Ender was not a true xenocide, for when he destroyed the buggers, we knew them only as varelse.

  • 1991 J. D. Vinge Summer Queen (2003) 272 Joan D. Vinge bibliography

    It’s not just about the morality of committing xenocide; it’s about enlightened self-interest.

  • 2002 A. Reynolds Redemption Ark (2004) 22 Alastair Reynolds bibliography

    But what she sensed was an aeons-old litany of surgical xenocide; of a dreadful process of cleansing waged upon emergent sentient species.

  • 2020 G. Rollins Trial & Error in Analog Science Fiction & Fact Nov.–Dec. 130/1 Grey Rollins bibliography

    When we return to Earth, he will face trial for attempted murder—of you, that is. Charges of attempted xenocide may also be in order.

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Research History
Paweł Dembowski submitted a 1964 cite from Anderson and Kurlan's _Ten Years to Doomsday_.

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