Earth Awakens

Synopsis

Earth Awakens

Chronologically, ‘Earth Awakens’ is the third book in the First Formic War Trilogy.

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.


Overview

TITLE Earth Awakens
AUTHORS Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston
PUBLICATION DATE June 10. 2014 (First Edition)
CANON LEVEL Tier 1
MEDIA TYPE Novel
PUBLISHER Tor Books
LENGTH 400 pages
ISBN  0765329069
PRECEDED CHRONOLOGICALLY BY Earth Afire
FOLLOWED CHRONOLOGICALLY BY The Swarm