Earth Awakens
2014 • 414 pages

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Average rating3.9

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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 At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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18 primary books

Enderverse: Publication Order

Enderverse: Publication Order is a 18-book series with 18 primary works first released in 1985 with contributions by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston.

Ender's Game
Speaker for the Dead
Xenocide
Children of the Mind
Ender's Shadow

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16 primary books17 released books

The Enderverse

The Enderverse is a 17-book series with 16 primary works first released in 1985 with contributions by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston.

Earth Unaware
Earth Afire
Earth Awakens
The Swarm
The Hive

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3 primary books

The First Formic War

The First Formic War is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 2012 with contributions by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston.

Earth Unaware
Earth Afire
Earth Awakens

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Enjoyable enough to finish but just barely

December 1, 2014

Great conclusion to the story without quite wrapping everything up.

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