Second Formic War The Swarm, Book 1, (Paperback)

from Karlstar

This is the first in what is likely to be a trilogy, detailing the time period before Ender's Game. Mazer Rackham is a mere captain in the International Fleet, one of the few humans with experience that survived the first initial landing by the Formics. Unfortunately the International Fleet isn't...

from DarthDeverell

In The Swarm: Volume One of the Second Formic War, Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston pick up where they left off with the First Formic War Trilogy - Earth Unaware, Earth Afire, and Earth Awakens - with the International Fleet preparing for the next conflict as the Formics mass on the outskirts ...

from orkydd

2.5 stars. Card and Johnston pick up their narrative a year or so after the end of the First Formic War. After the destruction of the Formic Scout Ship through the agency of Mazer Rackham, Vico Delgado, Lem Jukes and Imala Bootstamp, the Formic fleet is reconstituting far outside the Kuiper Belt....

from Cataloger623

Overall I enjoyed the story. It picks up on characters introduced in the earlier prequels of Enders Game series. The First Formic War (Ender's Game Prequel Trilogy). It acts as the first book of the Second Formic War Trilogy. What has been frustrating about these prequels is that we never hear fr...