The Swarm (Card and Johnston novel)

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The Swarm
AuthorOrson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston
Cover artistJohn Harris
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SeriesEnder's Game series
GenreScience fiction
PublisherTor Books
Publication date
August 2, 2016
Media typePrint (Hardcover)
Pages462 (Hardcover)
ISBN978-0-7653-7562-9
OCLC953833134
Preceded byEarth Awakens 
Followed byThe Hive 
Ender's Game series
Chronology
In chronological order
Earth Unaware
Earth Afire
Earth Awakens
The Swarm
The Hive
The Queens
"Mazer in Prison"
"The Polish Boy"
"Teacher's Pest"
"Pretty Boy"
"Cheater"
Ender's Game
'Recruiting Valentine'
A War of Gifts
Ender's Shadow
'The League War'
Children of the Fleet
Ender in Exile
Shadow of the Hegemon
Shadow Puppets
Shadow of the Giant
Shadows in Flight
"Investment Counselor"
Speaker for the Dead
Xenocide
Children of the Mind
The Last Shadow
In publication order
Ender's Game
Speaker for the Dead
Xenocide
Children of the Mind
Ender's Shadow
Shadow of the Hegemon
Shadow Puppets
First Meetings
Shadow of the Giant
A War of Gifts: An Ender Story
Ender in Exile
Shadows in Flight
Earth Unaware
Earth Afire
Earth Awakens
The Swarm
Children of the Fleet
The Hive
The Last Shadow
The Queens
    Chart    
  Short Stories
  
  Novels
  
  Comics
  
  Audioplay
  
  Film
First Meetings
(in the Enderverse)
(2002 (2003))
Ender's Game
Investment Counselor
The Polish Boy
Teacher's Pest
 
 
Formic Wars:
Burning Earth
(2011)
Formic Wars:
Silent Strike
(2012)
First Formic
War Trilogy
Earth Unaware
(2012)
Earth Afire
(2013)
Earth Awakens
(2014)
War of Gifts
(2010)
Mazer in Prison
Recruiting Valentine
The League War
War of Gifts
OSCs InterGalactic
Medicine Show
(2008)
Mazer in Prison
Cheater
Pretty Boy
A Young Man with
Prospects
Second Formic
War Trilogy
The Swarm
(2016)
The Hive
(2019)
The Queens
(TBA)
Mazer in Prison
(2005)
Mazer in Prison
(2010)
The Polish Boy
(2002)
Cheater
(2006)
Pretty Boy
(2006)
Teacher's Pest
(2003)
 
 
 
Ender's Shadow
(1999)
[note 1]
Ender's Shadow:
Battle School
(2009)
Command School
(2010)
Ultimate collection
(2012)
 
 
 
Ender's Game
Alive
(2013)
 
 
 
 
 
Recruiting Valentine
(2009)
 
 
 
The League War
(2010)
 
 
Ender's Game
(1977)
 
Ender's Game
(1985)
[note 1]
Ender's Game:
Battle School
(2009)
Command School
(2010)
Ultimate collection
(2012)
 
Ender's Game
(2013)
Ender's Stocking
(2007)
 
A War of Gifts
(2007)
[note 1]
 
 
War of Gifts
(2009)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The Shadow Trilogy
[note 2][note 3]
Shadow of the Hegemon
(2001)
Shadow Puppets
(2002)
Shadow of the Giant
(2005)
Ender's Homecoming
(2008)
A Young Man with
Prospects (2007)
Ender in Flight
(2008)
The Gold Bug
(2007)
Ender in Exile
(2008)
[note 2]
Ender in Exile
(2011)
 
Gold Bug
(2010)
Fleet School
[note 4]
Children of the Fleet
(2017)
...
(TBC)
 
 
Governor Wiggin
(2017)
Investment Counselor
(1999)
Renegat
(2017)
Shadows in Flight
(2012)
 
 
Speaker for the Dead
(2011)
Gloriously Bright
(1991)
 
 
The Speaker Trilogy
[note 3]
Speaker for the Dead
(1986)
Xenocide
(1991)
Children of the Mind
(1996)
Messenger
(2018)
The Last Shadow
(2021)
  1. ^ a b c The events of Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow and A War of Gifts take place in roughly the same time period.
    The events of A War of Gifts only take place during the time at Battle School).
  2. ^ a b The events of Ender in Exile and the Shadow Trilogy take place in roughly the same time period.
    - First part of Ender in Exile (2/3) takes place during the Shadow Trilogy.
    - Last part of Ender in Exile (1/3) takes places after Shadow of the Giant.
  3. ^ a b Note on the following (maybe not yet so common) Trilogies:
    "Speaker Trilogy": Original set of sequels to Ender's Game, also referred to as:
    - "Ender Quartet" (Ender's Game combined with "Speaker Trilogy"), also referred to as:
    - "Ender Quintet" ("Ender Quartet" combined with Ender in Exile).
    "Shadow Trilogy": Original set of sequels to Ender's Shadow, also referred to as:
    - "Bean Quartet"/"Shadow Quartet" (Ender's Shadow combined with "Shadow Trilogy"), also referred to as:
    - "Bean Quintet"/"Shadow Quintet" ("Bean Quartet" combined with Shadows in Flight), could be referred to as:
    - "Bean Sextet"/"Shadow Sextet" ("Bean Quintet" combined with The Last Shadow)
  4. ^ Title is also mentioned in regard to a possible sequel for the film.

The Swarm is a 2016 science fiction novel by American writers Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston, and the first book of the Second Formic Wars trilogy of novels in the Ender's Game series. It was released on August 2, 2016.[1]

Plot[edit]

The first invasion of Earth was beaten back by a coalition of corporate and international military forces, and the Chinese army, but China has been devastated by the Formics' 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. Earth's government has been reorganized for defense; it now comprises a Hegemon, a planetary official responsible for keeping all the formerly warring nations in line, and a Polemarch, responsible for organizing all the military forces of the planet into the new International Fleet. But ambition and politics, greed and self-interest remain, as important members of the military continue to place their career prospects ahead of Earth's defense. It is up to Bingwen, Mazer Rackam, Victor Delgado and Lem Jukes to create a weapon that can effectively defend humanity.

Series[edit]

The book is the first of the Second Formic War trilogy by Card and Johnston. The projected titles for the second and third books are The Hive and The Queens respectively.[2] The Hive was released on June 11, 2019.[3]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "The Swarm (The Second Formic War, #1)". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2018-07-21.
  2. ^ @orsonscottcard (April 3, 2014). "The Second Formic Wars trilogy titles released" (Tweet). Retrieved 2018-07-21 – via Twitter.
  3. ^ "The Hive (The Second Formic War #2)". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2019-09-04.

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