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Name: Earth Afire
Rating: 3.916666666666 (12 reviews)
Author: Orson Scott Card

Earth Afire chronicles the First Formic War, set a century before the events of Ender's Game. Victor Delgado attempts to alert skeptical Earth governments to an imminent alien invasion, but his warnings are largely ignored. As the threat escalates, Mazer Rackham and the Mobile Operations Police mobilize to counter the unprecedented challenge of the Formic threat, navigating the complexities of space flight and human‑alien encounters. The novel blends military science fiction with tense space warfare, offering a prelude to the later series while exploring Earth's early response to extraterrestrial aggression.

First publish date: 2013

Genre: Science Fiction/Military Science Fiction

Authors: Orson Scott Card

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