The First Formic War

ENDER’S GAME opens in the last desperate days of Earth’s war against implacable insectoid aliens.  We are told early on that the Battle School is training generals for the Third Formic War — the war that will end the war, save the Earth, and finally defeat the Buggers. Working with Aaron Johnston, Orson Scott Card fills in the history of the Ender Universe with a pulse-pounding tale of first contact gone horribly wrong in this series chronicling THE FIRST FORMIC WAR.