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The Swarm

The Second Formic War (Volume 1)

The Second Formic War (Volume 1)

Author: Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston

The Swarm

The Swarm

About This Book

Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston return to their Ender's Game prequel series with this first volume of an all-new trilogy about the Second Formic War in The Swarm.

Page Count
528
On Sale
01/30/2018

Book Details

Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston return to their Ender's Game prequel series with this first volume of an all-new trilogy about the Second Formic War in The Swarm.

The first invasion of Earth was beaten back by a coalition of corporate and international military forces, and the Chinese army. China has been devastated by the Formic's initial efforts to eradicate Earth life forms and prepare the ground for their own settlement. The Scouring of China struck fear into the other nations of the planet; that fear blossomed into drastic action when scientists determined that the single ship that wreaked such damage was merely a scout ship.

There is a mothership out beyond the Solar System's Kuiper Belt, and it's heading into the system, unstoppable by any weapons that Earth can muster.

Earth has been reorganized for defense. There is now a Hegemon, a planetary official responsible for keeping all the formerly warring nations in line. There's a Polemarch, responsible for organizing all the military forces of the planet into the new International Fleet. But there is an enemy within, an enemy as old as human warfare: ambition and politics. Greed and self-interest. Will Bingwen, Mazer Rackam, Victor Delgado and Lem Juke be able to divert those very human enemies in time to create a weapon that can effectively defend humanity in the inexorable Second Formic War?

THE ENDER UNIVERSE

Ender series
Ender’s Game / Speaker for the Dead / Xenocide / Children of the Mind / Ender in Exile / Children of the Fleet

Ender’s Shadow series
Ender’s Shadow / Shadow of the Hegemon / Shadow Puppets / Shadow of the Giant / Shadows in Flight

The First Formic War (with Aaron Johnston)
Earth Unaware / Earth Afire / Earth Awakens

The Second Formic War (with Aaron Johnston)
The Swarm / The Hive

Ender novellas
A War of Gifts / First Meetings

Imprint Publisher

Tor Science Fiction

ISBN

9780765375636

In The News

“Orson Scott Card has apparently swallowed science fiction whole.” —The New York Times

“One of the greats of contemporary science fiction and fantasy.” —The Wall Street Journal

“Orson Scott Card is as fine a writer as we have.” —The Los Angeles Times

“[Orson Scott] Card is a writer of compassion.” —The Washington Post

“The best writer science fiction has to offer.” —The Houston Post

“Card is a master storyteller.” —The Seattle Times

About the Creators

The Swarm

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