A hundred years before Ender's Game, humans thought they were alone in
the galaxy. Humanity was slowly making their way out from Earth to the
planets and asteroids of the Solar System, exploring and mining and
founding colonies.
The mining ship El Cavador is far out from Earth, in the deeps of the
Kuiper Belt, beyond Pluto. Other mining ships, and the families that
live on them, are few and far between this far out. So when El
Cavador's telescopes pick up a fast-moving object coming in-system,
it's hard to know what to make of it. It's massive and moving at a
significant fraction of the speed of light.
But the ship has other problems. Their systems are old and failing. The
family is getting too big. There are claim-jumping corporates bringing
Asteroid Belt tactics to the Kuiper Belt. Worrying about a distant
object that might or might not be an alien ship seems...not important.
They're wrong. It's the most important thing that has happened to the
human race in a million years. This is humanity's first contact with an
alien race. The First Formic War is about to begin.
Earth Unaware is the first novel in The First Formic War series by
Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston.
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
