The Formic Wars · Book 3
Earth Awakens
- Published
- 10 June 2014
- Pages
- 395
- ISBN-13
- 9780765329066
- Type
- novel
About this book
Earth Awakens (June 2014, 395 pages) closes the First Formic War trilogy, close in length to the first book, bringing Earth's desperate, losing fight against the Formics -- the aliens Ender's Game calls the Buggers -- to its resolution.
Its place in The Formic Wars
Earth Awakens is book 3 in the The Formic Wars series. It follows Earth Afire. It is followed by The Swarm. See the full The Formic Wars reading order.
Co-written with Aaron Johnston, the Formic Wars novels are prequels to Ender's Game dramatizing the two alien invasions -- referred to throughout the original saga only in hindsight -- that shaped the world Ender is born into. The First Formic War trilogy ( Earth Unaware , Earth Afire , Earth Awakens ) follows the initial, catastrophic contact between humanity and the insectoid Formics (the 'Buggers' of Ender's Game ), tracking mining-ship crews, military officers, and the young Mazer Rackham -- later Ender's own…
Editions
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