The Swarm : The Second Formic War (Volume 1)

The Swarm : The Second Formic War (Volume 1)Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston return to their Ender's Game prequel series with this first volume of an all new trilogy about the Second Formic War in The Swarm. The first invasion of Earth was beaten back by a coalition of corporate and international military forces, and the Chinese army. China has been devastated by the Formic's initial efforts to eradicate Earth life forms and prepare the ground for their own settlement. The Scouring of China

'Mark Lowery is far too funny' Jonathan Meres

Iris's teacher and eventually her lover

from babies to home to gift giving to crafts for parties and entertaining

each focusing on a different area of the world: the Americas

” –The New York Times Book Review“Fantastic… a book that feels alive on the page

maintaining focus will be critical

we are closer than ever to understanding where it all came from

Or if the Allies had suffered a major setback at the Battle of the Bulge

and despite their obvious intelligence

dining al fresco with a few friends or simply cooling off with a cocktail

As past and present fuse ominously

literally from the ground up