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.
Key facts about Earth Awakens
Earth Awakens is a novel by Aaron Johnston and Orson Scott Card. Readers have had it since 10 June 2014. It runs to 395 pages.
Our list holds 1 edition of Earth Awakens. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780765329066 to find the main one.
Earth Awakens is book 3 of 5 in The Formic Wars series. The series has 5 published books. However, the series starts with Earth Unaware (2012). The Hive is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 11 June 2019.
Additionally, Orson Scott Card writes Ender's Game, Tales of Alvin Maker and Homecoming Saga, plus 5 more series. Those series sit on our science fiction, fantasy and historical fiction shelves. Meanwhile, Master Alvin is the latest published Orson Scott Card book on file, from 28 April 2026.
About Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card is an American science fiction author best known for Ender's Game, a 1985 novel following a child military prodigy trained to command Earth's defense against an alien threat, which won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards and remains one of the most widely read science fiction novels of its era, particularly popular as an entry point for younger and reluctant readers. See every Orson Scott Card book in order.
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
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780765329066