Earth Awakens (2014)
Earth Awakens is a 2014 space warfare book written by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston.
The Formic scout ship holds Earth orbit while its crews terraform captured ground in China, poisoning the land against the people who defend it. Communications between the far-flung mining ships are broken, corporate power struggles on Luna eclipse distant deaths, and Earth's governments still cannot agree on a united answer. A scattered handful of soldiers, engineers, and spaceborn fighters, Victor Delgado and Mazer Rackham among them, hunt for a way to strike the single ship before the invasion becomes permanent. This closing volume of the First Formic War drives the century-old prelude to Ender's Game toward its costly resolution.
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What is Earth Awakens about?
The Formic scout ship holds Earth orbit while its crews terraform captured ground in China, poisoning the land against the people who defend it. Communications between the far-flung mining ships are broken, corporate power struggles on Luna eclipse distant deaths, and Earth's governments still cannot agree on a united answer. A scattered handful of soldiers, engineers, and spaceborn fighters, Victor Delgado and Mazer Rackham among them, hunt for a way to strike the single ship before the invasion becomes permanent. This closing volume of the First Formic War drives the century-old prelude to Ender's Game toward its costly resolution.
When was Earth Awakens published?
Earth Awakens was published in 2014.
Who made Earth Awakens?
Earth Awakens was written by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston.
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The desperate, resource-starved defense recalls Edge of Tomorrow, where humanity grinds against a technologically superior alien beachhead. For the military problem of one lone enemy vessel that has to be reached and stopped, Starship Troopers channels the same all-in mobilization and heavy cost. Readers who want the payoff should carry straight on to Ender's Game.
Ordinary people mobilized against an invasion no one saw coming
Earth Awakens follows scattered miners, soldiers and engineers scrambling to strike a single alien ship before its foothold on Earth becomes permanent, the same scramble that drives ordinary recruits into uniform in Starship Troopers and traps a reluctant soldier in an endless loop of combat in Edge of Tomorrow. Ender's Game shows where that mobilization eventually leads, and Half-Life 2 imagines the occupation Earth Awakens is racing to prevent.