Earth Awakens

The First Formic War, Book 3

By: Aaron Johnston, Orson Scott Card

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki, Stephen Hoye, Arthur Morey, Vikas Adam, Roxanne Hernandez, Emily Rankin

Length: 14 hrs and 49 mins

Publisher's summary

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

©2014 Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston (P)2014 Macmillan Audio

purdy good

It's good. not bad. not great. good...and it leaves me wanting more, so onto the next book in the series.

I miss OSC

Aaron Johnston does not write like OSC. Good book, but not the same level as the books Card used to write. I have read a lot of his books and I was hoping he was going to put these books and the final for shadow and ender on his desk this writing all of Enderverse himself.

Great story and narration!

Loved every moment of this, the third book in this trilogy. The two authors complement each other to produce a mesmerizing tale!

Grate Book

Love it thank you Orson Scott Card Grate Book I look for word to reading more.

Loved it

Enjoyed the characters and story. Victor, O Tool, and Mazer of course! Great narrators as always!!!

Really enjoyed it.

Long time fan of all the Ender's game and the rest. Familiar characters but very different, still entertaining story.

great audio book with multi person cast!

even the author prefers the audio book version of his works as he studied playwriting in college

Fantastic!

These three books are amazing!! Cannot wait for the second book in the second formic wars to come out!

First rate Orson Scott Card story

Would you consider the audio edition of Earth Awakens to be better than the print version?

Action never stops and smoothly continues the story with out stopping from book 2 in the series. Orson Scott Card does a great job in holding your interest as he unfolds the events of the first Formic encounters. A must read if you liked Enders Game.

What about the narrators’s performance did you like?

multi cast performance - great job by all.

awesome story but flawed performance.

the story Itself by the author is a very interesting and gripping indeed.

Mr. Card increased the knowledge of the Ender Universe with the story which contains a lot of background information to the upcoming Ender stories. the characters were really fleshed out and completely believable and you totally understood the motivations of all of the characters involved.

the performance on the other hand did leave a lot to be desired. Although many of the voices heard we're also in the previous book and the Ender series, The Changing of voice actors for a particular character multiple times through the story was very annoying. I'm not sure if it was a contractual issue or not, but the character of Mazer Rackham had two different voice actors play the part. this continued throughout the entire second half of the storyline. It was hard to get behind the actors when you didn't know if it the voice was going to change and it really threw the story off for me. I prefer Stefan Rudnicki as the voice of Mazer Rackham as well as his other works from the same author. His voice does command respect and does show emotion when it's called for in the story.

I do congratulate all of the voice actors in the story for bringing it to life. All of you did a really fine job thank you for doing so.

If you do enjoy the Ender stories and these prequel stories you will definitely enjoy this one as well.