Earth Awakens
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4.5 • 368 Ratings
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Publisher Description
The story of The First Formic War continues in Earth Awakens.
Nearly 100 years before the events of Orson Scott Card's bestselling novel Ender's Game, humans were just beginning to step off Earth and out into the Solar System. A thin web of ships in both asteroid belts; a few stations; a corporate settlement on Luna. No one had seen any sign of other space-faring races; everyone expected that First Contact, if it came, would happen in the future, in the empty reaches between the stars. Then a young navigator on a distant mining ship saw something moving too fast, heading directly for our sun.
When the alien ship screamed through the solar system, it disrupted communications between the far-flung human mining ships and supply stations, and between them and Earth. So Earth and Luna were unaware that they had been invaded until the ship pulled into Earth orbit, and began landing terra-forming crews in China. Politics and pride slowed the response on Earth, and on Luna, corporate power struggles seemed more urgent than distant deaths. But there are a few men and women who see that if Earth doesn't wake up and pull together, the planet could be lost.
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
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Customer Reviews
More!!
A brilliant series. But, there's only one in the next series. Moooooore!!!
When will it End?
How can a plot so rushed and threadbare also be so interminable. Brief, predictable, plot-driven and hackneyed action sequences are interspersed by long periods of dull melodrama, with thinly drawn characters talking and behaving in ways no human could find relatable, and using ten words where four would do. It’s as if the authors are Formics themselves, imagining how awkward it must be to communicate with human language. Did they think the film version of Ender’s Game would spawn a franchise, and rush to fill it with commercial material? Where is the philosophical Scott Card? Where is the strategic Scott Card? Where is the patience and thoughtfulness and care of his earlier work? This story that started so beautifully two books ago, with a broken heart in the captains quarters aboard El Cavador is army crawling through literary feculence to a conclusion I no longer care to reach.
Wow! Truly stands on its own.
Totally wraps up the series. Great read. On par easily with first two books.