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1) The swarm
Author
Series
Second Formic War volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The first invasion of Earth was beaten back by a coalition of corporate and international military forces, and the Chinese army, but China has been devastated by the Formics' 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...
Author
Series
Formic Wars volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Struggling with outdated systems and claim-jumping corporate interests in the deeps of the Kuiper Belt, a family on board the cramped mining ship El Cavador spots a rapidly approaching object moving toward the solar system that triggers a catastrophic war.
3) Ender's game
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Series
Language
English
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Andrew "Ender" Wiggin thinks he is playing computer simulated war games; he is, in fact, engaged in something far more desperate. The result of genetic experimentation, Ender may be the military genius Earth desperately needs in a war against an alien enemy seeking to destroy all human life. The only way to find out is to throw Ender into ever harsher training, to chip away and find the diamond inside, or destroy him utterly. Ender Wiggin is six years...
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Series
Formic Wars volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Traces the events of the First Formic War, following the unsuccessful attempt of Victor Delgado to warn skeptical Earth governments of an imminent alien invasion and the efforts of Mazer Rackham and the Mobile Operations Police to meet unprecedented threats.
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Series
Shadow saga volume 1
Language
English
Description
Parallel story to Ender's game. An orphan named Bean is found on the streets of Amsterdam and taken to Battle School, where he becomes both friend and rival to Ender Wiggin.
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Series
Fleet School volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Dabeet Ochoa is a very smart kid. He's top of his class in every school, but he doesn't think he has a chance at Fleet School, because he has no connections to the Fleet. But then Colonel Graff arrives at his school for an interview, and everything changes.
7) Xenocide
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Series
Language
English
Description
The Starways Congress decides that the deadly virus on Lusitania must be wiped out and sends a fleet to destroy it. After the fleet disappears, Gloriously Bright, the most brilliant mind in a world of people bred for superintelligence, is selected to solve the mystery.
Author
Series
Formic Wars volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
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. In this...
9) The hive
Author
Series
Second Formic War volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A second prequel to Ender's Game continues the sci-fi history of the Formic Wars and finds the warring nations and corporations of Earth struggling to set aside their differences to defend against an imminent alien invasion.
Author
Series
Ender saga volume 3
Publisher
[Ediciones] B
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
The Starways Congress decides that the deadly virus on Lusitania must be wiped out and sends a fleet to destroy it. After the fleet disappears, Gloriously Bright is selected to solve the mystery.
Author
Series
Ender saga volume 4
Publisher
B [de Bolsillo]
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
The planet Lusitania is threatened with destruction by Starways Congress. With the help of the computer intelligence Jane, Ender must save the planet and its three species.
Hijos de la mente es la esperada continuación de Ender el xenocida y la cuarta entrega de la "Saga de Ender", una de las mejores series de ciencia ficción jamás publicadas. Lusitania es único en la galaxia, un planeta donde coexisten tres especies inteligentes: los pequeninos,...
Author
Series
Ender saga volume 2
Publisher
[Ediciones] B
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
Ender Wiggin, the young military genius, discovers that a second alien war is inevitable and that he must dismiss his fears to make peace with humanity's strange new brothers.
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Series
Language
English
Description
Ender Wiggin, the hero and scapegoat of mass alien destruction in Ender's Game, receives a chance at redemption in this novel. Ender, who proclaimed as a mistake his success in wiping out an alien race, wins the opportunity to cope better with a second race, discovered by Portuguese colonists on the planet Lusitania. Orson Scott Card infuses this long, ambitious tale with intellect by casting his characters in social, religious and cultural contexts....
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Series
Publisher
Ediciones B., S.A., para el sello Zeta Bolsillo
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Español
Description
Parallel story to El juego de Ender [Ender's game]. An orphan named Bean is found on the streets of Amsterdam and taken to Battle School, where he becomes both friend and rival to Ender Wiggin.
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