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Read By: Aaron Johnston, Stefan Rudnicki Publisher: Macmillan Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 9.83 hours at 1.5x Speed 7.38 hours at 2.0x Speed Series: The First Formic War Series Release Date: June 2014 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781427241023

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

43

Longest Chapter Length:

29:59 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

06:28 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

20:40 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

75

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Publisher Description

The story of The First Formic War continues in Earth Awakens. Nearly 100 years before the events of Orson Scott Card's bestselling novel Ender's Game, humans were just beginning to step off Earth and out into the Solar System. A thin web of ships in both asteroid belts; a few stations; a corporate settlement on Luna. No one had seen any sign of other space-faring races; everyone expected that First Contact, if it came, would happen in the future, in the empty reaches between the stars. Then a young navigator on a distant mining ship saw something moving too fast, heading directly for our sun. When the alien ship screamed through the solar system, it disrupted communications between the far-flung human mining ships and supply stations, and between them and Earth. So Earth and Luna were unaware that they had been invaded until the ship pulled into Earth orbit, and began landing terra-forming crews in China. Politics and pride slowed the response on Earth, and on Luna, corporate power struggles seemed more urgent than distant deaths. But there are a few men and women who see that if Earth doesn't wake up and pull together, the planet could be lost. 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

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"Fully enjoyed this new Enderverse series. Appetite is now waiting for a continuation from this series leading up to the Ender's Game story line. Really liked the backstory this series presented for Mazur and the IF. A similar theme with Graf would be great to tie everything together."

— JKinPA (5 out of 5 stars)

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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

Awards

  • A New York Times bestseller
  • Barnes & Noble's Biggest Books, June 2014

Earth Awakens Listener Reviews

Overall Performance: 4.6 out of 54.6 out of 54.6 out of 54.6 out of 54.6 out of 5 (4.60)
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    — mobrien, 11/2/2022
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    — Joseph Ansohn, 4/12/2022
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    — Bill Hausenfluck, 5/29/2021
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    — Paul, 5/15/2020
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    — Pekka Lehtikoski, 11/13/2019

About the Authors

Orson Scott Card, the author of the New York Times bestseller Ender’s Game, has won several Hugo and Nebula awards for his works of speculative fiction. His Ender novels are widely read by adults and younger readers and are increasingly used in schools. Besides these and other science fiction novels, Card writes contemporary fantasy, American-frontier fantasy, biblical novels, poetry, plays, and scripts.

Aaron Johnston is a New York Times bestselling author who cowrote the novel Invasive Procedures and the Formic Wars series with bestselling author and science-fiction legend Orson Scott Card. Johnston’s comic credits include Ender in ExileSpeaker for the Dead, Formic WarsLeague War, and Mazer in Prison, all for Marvel. His screenplay adaptations include Alvin MakerSarah: Woman of GenesisThe Multiple ManFeed the Baby of Love, and others. His play Lifeloop, an adaptation of Orson Scott Card’s short story, was featured at Western Illinois University. He is also an associate producer on the upcoming film Ender’s Game. A longtime stage improviser, Aaron is a former member of LA’s Improv Factory, Santa Clarita Improv, and the Garrens Comedy Troupe.

About Stefan Rudnicki

Stefan Rudnicki first became involved with audiobooks in 1994. Now a Grammy-winning audiobook producer, he has worked on more than five thousand audiobooks as a narrator, writer, producer, or director. He has narrated more than nine hundred audiobooks. A recipient of multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards, he was presented the coveted Audie Award for solo narration in 2005, 2007, and 2014, and was named one of AudioFile’s Golden Voices in 2012.