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Earth Unaware

The First Formic War Series, Book 1

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Wait time: About 2 weeks

A hundred years before Ender's Game, humans thought they were alone in the galaxy. Humanity was slowly making their way out from Earth to the planets and asteroids of the Solar System, exploring and mining and founding colonies.
The mining ship El Cavador is far out from Earth, in the deeps of the Kuiper Belt, beyond Pluto. Other mining ships, and the families that live on them, are few and far between this far out. So when El Cavador's telescopes pick up a fast-moving object coming in-system, it's hard to know what to make of it. It's massive and moving at a significant fraction of the speed of light.
But the ship has other problems. Their systems are old and failing. The family is getting too big. There are claim-jumping corporates bringing Asteroid Belt tactics to the Kuiper Belt. Worrying about a distant object that might or might not be an alien ship seems...not important.
They're wrong. It's the most important thing that has happened to the human race in a million years. This is humanity's first contact with an alien race. The First Formic War is about to begin.
Earth Unaware is the first novel in The First Formic War series by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      May 7, 2012
      Card and Johnston expand Card’s near-future universe in this readable, if not notable, novel, which launches a prequel trilogy to the bestselling Ender’s Game that will cover the same ground as the recent Formic War comics from Marvel. The residents of the mining spaceship El Cavador discover what appears to be an alien ship, and although young Victor advises alerting as many people as possible, he is overruled by the too cautious ship’s council. Then a human corporate ship, under the guidance of Lem Jukes, a son attempting to crawl out from his father’s shadow, attacks the El Cavador. Between the alien attacks and the intra-human warfare, there’s plenty of action, but the story adds little to the space invasion subgenre, and even less to the Ender universe. Fans won’t find anything to actively dislike, and they might appreciate the added development of characters who were one-dimensional in the comics, but there’s little to love.

    • Publisher's Weekly

      October 29, 2012
      In this prequel to the popular Ender science fiction series, Card and Johnston reveal mankind’s first encounter with space aliens during the early mining and industrialization of the solar system. Although this audio edition begins a little slowly, as the narration passes from character to character, the talented cast—which includes Stefan Rudnicki, Stephen Hoye, Arthur Mory, Vikas Adam, Emily Janice Card, Gabrielle de Cuir, and Roxanne Hernandez—easily keeps listeners intrigued with skillful characterizations that feature unique voices, accents, and dialects. And by the time the huge alien ship arrives and the story kicks into high gear, listeners will be utterly captivated by this exciting adventure. A Tor hardcover.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      The book ENDER'S GAME (first published 1985) propelled Orson Scott Card to the front ranks of science fiction/fantasy authors. He remains there today with a wide body of publications, including a series of video games. A film adaptation of ENDER is underway for 2013. The present novel is a prequel that describes the first contact between earth and an alien civilization and the violence that ensues. A mining ship in the Kuiper Belt, far beyond Pluto, detects an incoming starship traveling at immense speed. The somber basso voice of Stefan Rudnicki and two well-chosen players march through the story, with Vikas Adam's young voice particularly effective in segments featuring an angst-ridden teenager. This is an outstanding job, with more to come. D.R.W. © AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine

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