- Space warfare, Fiction, Human-alien encounters, Space and time
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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Classical in form, earnest, epic and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Orson Scott Card, Aaron Johnston
- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 392
- Publisher
- Orbit, MacMillan Audio, Prószyński Media
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- Polish, Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9788378394808
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Orson Scott Card is an American novelist, critic, public speaker, essayist and columnist. He writes in several genres but is known best for science fiction. His novel Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel Speaker for the Dead (1986) both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the only author to win both science fiction's top U.S. prizes in consecutive years.
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