Earth Awakens Audiobook

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• “Card and Johnston intensify their complex intergalactic mythos with emotional intensity and widening thematic scope. Everyday desires are as deadly as the Formics’ flesh-eating acid in this collision of space opera and big-bug epic. This breakneck thriller is a dark and lively addition to the Enderverse.”

  — Publishers Weekly

• ”With a nice balance of violence and political machination, the novel will definitely please readers of the first two books in the series—a series that, it should be pointed out, isn’t merely a spin-off of Ender’s Game and its numerous sequels. Even if there had been no Ender’s Game, the First Formic Wars novels would still pack the same considerable wallop…Card remains among the biggest names in contemporary science fiction, and his latest will be published to a legion of eager fans.”

  — Booklist

• “Large slabs of narrative detail the rancorous rivalry between Ukko and Lem…Fans will devour it.”

  — Kirkus Reviews

• “Stefan Rudnicki and eleven other narrators perform this prequel to Ender’s Game…Rudnicki becomes a fully credible Mazer Rackham as he and his crew fight Formics on Earth and their comrades battle the Formic mothership orbiting the moon. The cast believably expresses the suspense and the characters’ terror. Listeners, beware: You won’t be able to stop listening until the last word resonates in your ears.”

  — AudioFile

• “The sections that feature highly intelligent, self-reliant children--Card's trademark--are as excellent as ever; elsewhere there's plenty of solid action, well-developed characters....Another solidly engrossing installment, where the aliens are really just a sideshow: What we're witnessing is how and why Ender's child armies came to be.

  — Kirkus Reviews on Earth Afire

• While the reader knows who wins the war, the fate of the engaging characters in this story is up in the air. Thirty-five years after he introduced Ender to the world, it's great to see that Orson Scott Card is still making magic in this imaginative world.

  — New York Journal of Books on Earth Afire

• The pacing and the vivid action scenes will satisfy hard-core military-SF buffs. At the same time, the characters and the ethical foundations under them are at the high level we have come to associate with Card. Laying their own foundations under Card's Ender Wiggins saga, the Formic Wars promise to add to Card's already high reputation and to his collaborator's as well.

  — Booklist, starred review on Earth Afire

• Card and Johnston explore human ignorance and compassion through a tapestry of galactic warfare in the second volume of the Formic Wars trilogy.... Social upheavals and political ineptitude are realized through rich characterization and brisk action.

  — Publishers Weekly on Earth Afire