The Swarm: The Second Formic War (Volume 1) (2016)

by Orson Scott Card, Aaron Johnston (Author)

Other authors: See the other authors section.

Series: The Second Formic War (1), Enderverse (4)

Members	Reviews	Popularity	Average rating	Mentions
422	11	63,430	(3.96)	3
Fiction. Science Fiction. HTML: Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston return to their Ender's Game prequel series with this first volume of an all-new trilogy about the Second Formic War in The Swarm. The first invasion of Earth was beaten back by a coalition of corporate and international military forces, and the Chinese army. China has been devastated by the Formic's 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 was merely a scout ship. There is a mothership out beyond the Solar System's Kuiper Belt, and it's heading into the system, unstoppable by any weapons that Earth can muster. Earth has been reorganized for defense. There is now a Hegemon, a planetary official responsible for keeping all the formerly warring nations in line. There's a Polemarch, responsible for organizing all the military forces of the planet into the new International Fleet. But there is an enemy within, an enemy as old as human warfare: ambition and politics. Greed and self-interest. Will Bingwen, Mazer Rackam, Victor Delgado and Lem Juke be able to divert those very human enemies in time to create a weapon that can effectively defend humanity in the inexorable Second Formic War? The Second Formic War #1 The Swarm .… (more)

all members

▾Members

Recently added by

MylanC, sycleark, Mark.Keenan, bhyive, lukesalinas, rbrennan13, Mar192837, nfripp, UndeadWookiee

▾Tags

▾LibraryThing Recommendations

▾Lists

Superhero Fantasy (34)

▾Will you like it?

▾Conversations (About links)

No current Talk conversations about this book.

» See also 3 mentions

▾Member reviews

English (10) Hungarian (1) All languages (11)

date ▼ | votes

Showing 1-5 of 10 (next | show all)

Good start to this series, it is helpful to have read the First Formic War series before this book, and since the second and third books are not out yet you have time. (

)

bhyive | Dec 27, 2024 |

It was great, I get all the Ender Series books on audio books from Audible now. They are unabridged and the actors are the same for each and the series and really make it worth listening too. I actually listed to this book twice before I marked it finished, I loved it and wanted to make sure I didn't miss anything. (

)

frankdjr | Nov 2, 2023 |

NOT another SF book by Card in his Formic universe. Primarily this is some sort of Thriller / Intrigue book by Aaron Johnson in Scott's Formic universe, with Scott doing some amount of it, not sure how much.
Once I realized that, I abandoned it, as I put Thrillers in the same category as taking a great story and making a cartoon out of it. If you need pictures and "KA-BOOM! POW!" you aren't ready for books yet kiddo, go buy a comic. (

)

acb13adm | Sep 13, 2023 |

When I got a chance to grab the prequel to Orson Scott Card's "Ender's Game," I was on it.

And, "The Swarm" did not disappoint.

This book suggests the origins of "Ender's Game." It explains the lives of the soldiers at the time and the political situation.

When "The Swarm" ended, I wanted to know what happened next to the people in the story. I cared about them.

I will have to read the next book in the Second Formic Wars Series. (

)

nab6215 | Jan 18, 2022 |

This is pretty good. I didn't really like the jump at the end from being in peril to it's all over. It was almost like they couldn't figure out how to write the solution. Other than that it was a pretty good book. (

)

GlenRH | Jul 26, 2021 |

date ▼ | votes

Showing 1-5 of 10 (next | show all)

▾Published reviews

no reviews | add a review

▾Other authors

» Add other authors (1 possible)

Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Orson Scott Card	—	primary author	all editions	calculated
Johnston, Aaron	Author	main author	all editions	confirmed
Adam, Vikas	Narrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Boehmer, Paul	Narrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Hanfield, Susan	Narrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Hoye, Stephen	Narrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Morey, Arthur	Narrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Rankin, Emily	Narrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Rudnicki, Stefan	Narrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

▾Series and work relationships

Belongs to Series

Enderverse (4)

The Second Formic War (1)

▾Awards and Honors

view history

▾Common Knowledge

You must log in to edit Common Knowledge data.

For more help see the Common Knowledge help page.

Canonical title

Original title

Alternative titles

Original publication date

2016

People/Characters

Important places

Important events

Related movies

Epigraph

Dedication

First words

Quotations

Last words

Disambiguation notice

Publisher's editors

Blurbers

Original language

Canonical DDC/MDS

Canonical LCC

▾References

References to this work on external resources.

Wikipedia in English

None

▾Book descriptions

Fiction. Science Fiction. HTML:

Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston return to their Ender's Game prequel series with this first volume of an all-new trilogy about the Second Formic War in The Swarm.
The first invasion of Earth was beaten back by a coalition of corporate and international military forces, and the Chinese army. China has been devastated by the Formic's 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 was merely a scout ship.
There is a mothership out beyond the Solar System's Kuiper Belt, and it's heading into the system, unstoppable by any weapons that Earth can muster.
Earth has been reorganized for defense. There is now a Hegemon, a planetary official responsible for keeping all the formerly warring nations in line. There's a Polemarch, responsible for organizing all the military forces of the planet into the new International Fleet. But there is an enemy within, an enemy as old as human warfare: ambition and politics. Greed and self-interest. Will Bingwen, Mazer Rackam, Victor Delgado and Lem Juke be able to divert those very human enemies in time to create a weapon that can effectively defend humanity in the inexorable Second Formic War?
The Second Formic War
#1 The Swarm

▾Library descriptions

No library descriptions found.

▾LibraryThing members' description

Book description

Haiku summary