Earth Unaware
Aaron Johnston, Orson Scott Card
Readers rate it 4.0 (167 on Hardcover)
368 pages · Released 2012 · Tor
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Earth Unaware is a military space opera prequel to Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game series, featuring an alien first contact scenario. The story involves space combat, exploration, and survival, with some intense moments but limited graphic depiction. It emphasizes courage, quick thinking, and problem-solving, though the escalating war threat introduces serious stakes and some darker elements appropriate for older teens.
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The mining ship El Cavador, beyond Pluto, detects a fast-moving incoming object headed toward Earth. The crew decides it's probably not important, but they're wrong: it represents the opening wave of the first Formic War. The mining ship El Cavador, beyond Pluto, detects a fast-moving incoming object headed toward Earth. The crew decides it's probably not important, but they're wrong: it represents the opening wave of the first Formic War.
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- Space warfare
- Fiction
- Human-alien encounters
- Space and time
- Science fiction
- Fiction, science fiction, military
- Interstellar travel
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