La Chine est dévastée, et l’humanité assiste impuissante à l’avancée des troupes extraterrestres. Là où les gouvernements ont échoué, les Jukes père et fils prennent le relais dans le plus grand secret et rivalisent d’ingéniosité et de moyens pour tenter d’annihiler le vaisseau mère, en vain.Alors que la résistance s’organise enfin sur Terre, les Formiques se font plus féroces et redoutables que jamais en réaction aux attaques dont ils font l’objet. Victor, Imala, Mazer et les GOM ...

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 ...

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 in...

Dure est la vie des mineurs indépendants dans la ceinture de Kuiper, au-delà de Neptune.À bord de leurs vaisseaux organisés comme des communautés familiales, au cours de longues expéditions, ils cherchent les astéroïdes dont la teneur en métaux de valeur sous la glace d’eau, de méthane et d’ammoniaque leur permettra de survivre sinon de s’enrichir. Pour peu que la concurrence des grandes compagnies ne les en prive pas. Tel est le quotidien à bord d’El Cavador le jo...

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, i...

One hundred years before Ender's Game, the aliens arrived on Earth with fire and death. This is the story of the First Formic War.Victor Delgado beat the alien ship to Earth, but just barely. Not soon enough to convince skeptical governments that there was a threat. They didn't believe that until space stations and ships and colonies went up in sudden flame.And when that happened, only Mazer Rackham and the Mobile Operations Police could move fast enough to meet th...

Au péril de sa vie, Victor a bel et bien atteint la Lune seul à bord d'une navette lancée depuis El Cavador, le vaisseau de sa famille de mineurs indépendants dans la ceinture de Kuiper. Il est venu avertir l'humanité de l'arrivée d'un gigantesque vaisseau extraterrestre.Mais nul n'entend son message, nul sinon Imala, jeune auditrice à l'Agence du commerce lunaire mise au placard, qui n'a guère d'autorité pour le prenne au sérieux.Et bientôt les extraterrestres sont là, qui ...

New York Times bestselling authors Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston return to the prequels to Ender's Game following The Swarm with The Hive, book two in the Second Formic War.Card and Johnston continue the fast-paced hard science fiction history of the Formic Wars—the alien invasions of Earth’s Solar System that ultimately led to Ender Wiggin’s total victory in Ender's Game.A coalition of Earth’s nations bare...

This discounted ebook bundle includes The First Formic War Trilogy by bestselling authors Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston: Earth Unaware, Earth Afire, Earth AwakensOne hundred years before Ender Wiggin decisively defeated the alien formics in Ender’s Game. A pulse-pounding tale of first contact gone horribly wrong.Ender’s Game opens in the last desperate days of Earth’s war against the implacable insectoid ali...

'A standout tale of SF adventure that gives Ender series fans fascinating backstory to the classic Ender's Game**'** - Library Journal on Earth UnawareTIME IS RUNNING OUT FOR HUMANITYIt is one hundred years before the events of Ender's Game. Tens of millions are dead in China as the invading Formics scour the landscape and gas cities with a lethal alien chemical. Young Mazer Rackham and the Mobile Operations Police scramb...

'The story progresses nimbly, with plenty of tension and excitement and Card's usual well-developed characters' - KIRKUS REVIEWS on EARTH UNAWARE'Literate prose and superlative characterisation . . . excellent' - BOOKLIST on EARTH UNAWAREHUMANS THOUGHT THEY WERE ALONE IN THE GALAXY. UNTIL NOW.A hundred years before Ender's Game, humanity is slowly making its way out to the planets of the solar system, expl...

'A standout tale of SF adventure that gives Ender series fans fascinating backstory to the classic Ender's Game' Library Journal on Earth UnawareTHE FUTURE OF HUMANITY HANGS IN THE BALANCEOne hundred years before Ender's Game, the aliens arrived on Earth with fire and death. This is the story of the First Formic War.Victor Delgado beat the alien ship to Earth, but just barely. Not soon enough to convince sceptical...