Earth Unaware: Book 1 of the First Formic War

Orson Scott Card, Aaron Johnston

Orbit, 2013 - Fiction - 416 pages

'The story progresses nimbly, with plenty of tension and excitement and Card's usual well-developed characters' - KIRKUS REVIEWS on EARTH UNAWARE

'Literate prose and superlative characterisation . . . excellent' - BOOKLIST on EARTH UNAWARE

HUMANS THOUGHT THEY WERE ALONE IN THE GALAXY. UNTIL NOW.

A hundred years before Ender's Game, humanity is slowly making its way out to the planets of the solar system, exploring and mining asteroids.

The ship El Cavador is far from Earth, in the deeps of the Kuiper Belt, beyond Pluto. When the ship's telescopes pick up a fast-moving object coming in-system, they're unsure what to make of it.

Little do they know that this object is the most important thing to happen to the human race in a million years. It's humanity's first contact with an alien race. The First Formic War is about to begin.

Book one of the First Formic War - a thrilling space adventure series set in the world of bestselling science fiction classic Ender's Game

Books by Orson Scott Card:

Alvin Maker novels
Seventh Son
Red Prophet
Prentice Alvin
Alvin Journeyman
Heartfire
The Crystal City

Ender Wiggin Saga
Ender's Game
Speaker for the Dead
Xenocide
Children of the Mind
Ender in Exile

Homecoming
The Memory of the Earth
The Call of the Earth
The Ships of the Earth
Earthfall
Earthborn

First Formic War (with Aaron Johnston)
Earth Unaware
Earth Afire
Earth Awakens

About the author

Orson Scott Byron Walley Card, was born in 1951 and studied theater at Brigham Young University. He received his B.A. in 1975 and his M.A. in English in 1981. He wrote plays during that time, including Stone Tables (1973) and the musical, Father, Mother, Mother and Mom (1974). A Mormon, Scott served a two-year mission in Brazil before starting work as a journalist in Utah. He also designed games at Lucas Film Games, 1989-92. He is best known for his science fiction novels, including the popular Ender series. Well known titles include A Planet Called Treason (1979), Treasure Box (1996), and Heartfire (1998). He has also written the guide called How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy (1990). His novel Ender's Game and its sequel Speaker for the Dead, both won Hugo and Nebula awards, making Card the only author to win both prizes in consecutive years. His titles Shadows in Flight, Ruins and Ender's Game made The New York Times Best Seller List. He is also the author of The First Formic War Series, which includes the titles Earth Unaware, Earth Afire, and Earth Awakens. Aaron Johnston is a New York Times bestselling author, comic book writer and associate producer on the Ender's Game movie.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Earth Unaware: Book 1 of the First Formic War; Volume 1 of Formic Wars, Orson Scott Card; Volume 1 of The First Formic War Series
• Authors: Orson Scott Card, Aaron Johnston
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Orbit, 2013
• ISBN: 0356502740, 9780356502748
• Length: 416 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Media Tie-In; Fiction / Science Fiction / Action & Adventure; Fiction / Science Fiction / General; Fiction / Science Fiction / Military; Fiction / Science Fiction / Space Opera