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Earth Unaware

By: Orson Scott Card, Aaron Johnston
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
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A hundred years before Ender's Game, humans thought they were alone in the galaxy. Humanity was slowly making their way out from Earth to the planets and asteroids of the Solar System, exploring and mining and founding colonies.

The mining ship El Cavador is far out from Earth, in the deeps of the Kuiper Belt, beyond Pluto. Other mining ships, and the families that live on them, are few and far between this far out. So when El Cavador's telescopes pick up a fast-moving object coming in-system, it's hard to know what to make of it. It's massive and moving at a significant fraction of the speed of light.

But the ship has other problems. Their systems are old and failing. The family is getting too big. There are claim-jumping corporates bringing Asteroid Belt tactics to the Kuiper Belt. Worrying about a distant object that might or might not be an alien ship seems…not important.

They're wrong. It's the most important thing that has happened to the human race in a million years. This is humanity's first contact with an alien race. The First Formic War is about to begin.
Earth Unaware is the first novel in The First Formic War series by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston.

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“The somber basso voice of Stefan Rudnicki and two well-chosen players march through the story, with a young man's voice particularly effective in segments featuring the angst-ridden teenager. This is an outstanding job, with more to come.” —AudioFile Magazine

“As the narration passes from character to character, the talented cast... easily keeps listeners intrigued with skillful characterizations that feature unique voices, accents, and dialects. And by the time the huge alien ship arrives and the story kicks into high gear, listeners will be utterly captivated by this exciting adventure.” —Publishers Weekly
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If you liked "Enders Game", you will love this book! While the later Ender/Shadow sequels were mostly philosophical in nature, this one returns to the fast paced style of the original. There is a lot more action, yet "Earth Unaware" does not sacrifice any of the deep character relations which are the hallmark of OSC's writing. The voice acting is great and helps to emphasize the different character perspectives. All in all a superb prequel!

Back to the roots

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Ich muss zugeben, dass ich voreingenommen bin, da Card mein absoluter Lieblingsautor ist, aber zu hören, wie es zu den Formic Kriegen kommt, finde ich grandios!
Das Storytelling ist wie immer fabelhaft. Nicht zu Persönlich, vorwegnehmend oder kompliziert; selbst, wenn es eigentlich eine komplizierte Sache ist, die beschrieben wird. Die Geschichte ist unglaublich interessant und spannend gemacht. Auch die Charaktere sind angenehm vielschichtig und man kann sich irgendwie in jeden hineinversetzen. Selbst den größten Arsch überhaupt. Wer bereits Card Bücher kennt, der wird vllt ab und zu bekannte Ideen oder Verhaltensmuster erkennen, aber ich finde das gibt dem ganzen noch mehr Eigencharakter.

Sehr, sehr großer Fan von der Ender Reihe, Orson Scott Card und seinen Welten

Absolut grandioses Storytelling

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Enders shadow was my first book by Mr Card, it was good but the film version of Ender didn’t do the novels any justice, this story was great.

Im suspicious of the author but enjoyed the book

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Good story overall, good technical descriptions for those of us who like that. My only big issue is that the Author doesn't seem to fully understand how movement in space and relative velocity work. It's somewhat immersion breaking at some points.

Good science fiction

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Was a fine Store and great performance. A couple of detail mistakes but as cars has said before it’s more like a story told from the characters perspective so a couple of miss remembered details are to be expected

Great performance.

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