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
struck fear into the other nations of the planet; that fear blossomed
into drastic action when scientists determined that the single ship that
wreaked such damage was merely a scout ship.
There is a mothership out beyond the Solar System's Kuiper Belt, and
it's heading into the system, unstoppable by any weapons that Earth can
muster.
Earth has been reorganized for defense. There is now a Hegemon, a
planetary official responsible for keeping all the formerly warring
nations in line. There's a Polemarch, responsible for organizing all the
military forces of the planet into the new International Fleet. But
there is an enemy within, an enemy as old as human warfare: ambition and
politics. Greed and self-interest. Will Bingwen, Mazer Rackam, Victor
Delgado and Lem Juke be able to divert those very human enemies in time
to create a weapon that can effectively defend humanity in the
inexorable Second Formic War?
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
