Earth afire
Subtitle: the first Formic War
By: Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston
Contributors: Johnston, Aaron, author; Card, Orson Scott; Harris, John, 1948 July 29- illustrator
Series: Volume two of the Formic Wars
Publisher: Tor
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9780765367372
Subjects: Space warfare; Human-alien encounters; Space flight; Fiction
Description: One hundred years before Ender's Game, the aliens arrived on Earth with fire and death. This is the story of the First Formic War. Victor Delgado beat the alien ship to Earth, but just barely. Not soon enough to convince skeptical governments that there was a threat. They didn't believe that until space stations and ships and colonies went up in sudden flame. And when that happened, only Mazer Rackham and the Mobile Operations Police could move fast enough to meet the threat.
Notes: "A Tom Doherty Associates book."

Cover art by John Harris.