The Swarm (Card and Johnston novel)

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The Swarm

Author	Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston
Cover artist	John Harris
Language	English
Series	Ender's Game series
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	Tor Books
Publication date	August 2, 2016
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (Hardcover)
Pages	462 (Hardcover)
ISBN	978-0-7653-7562-9
OCLC	953833134
Preceded by	Earth Awakens
Followed by	The Hive

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)

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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)

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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

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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)

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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

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Speaker for the Dead (1986)



Xenocide (1991)



Children of the Mind (1996)

Messenger (2018)

The Last Shadow (2021)

^ ^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).
^ ^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.
^ ^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)
^ 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

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

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]

References

^ "The Swarm (The Second Formic War, #1)". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2018-07-21.
^ @orsonscottcard (2014-04-03). "The Second Formic Wars trilogy titles released" (Tweet). Retrieved 2018-07-21 – via Twitter.
^ "The Hive (The Second Formic War #2)". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2019-09-04.

External links

The Swarm title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Works by Orson Scott Card

Ender's Game series

Books

Ender Series	Ender's Game (1985) Speaker for the Dead (1986) Xenocide (1991) Children of the Mind (1996) Ender in Exile (2008)
Shadow Saga	Ender's Shadow (1999) Shadow of the Hegemon (2001) Shadow Puppets (2002) Shadow of the Giant (2005) Shadows in Flight (2012) The Last Shadow (2021)
Formic Wars	Earth Unaware (2012) Earth Afire (2013) Earth Awakens (2014) The Swarm (2016) The Hive (2019) The Queens (TBA)
First Meetings (2002) A War of Gifts: An Ender Story (2007) Children of the Fleet (2017)

Short stories

Other media

Comics
Film

Characters

The Tales of Alvin Maker
Books	Seventh Son (1987) Red Prophet (1988) Prentice Alvin (1989) Alvin Journeyman (1995) Heartfire (1998) The Crystal City (2003)
Other media	"Prentice Alvin and the No-Good Plow" (poem, 1989) Red Prophet: The Tales of Alvin Maker (comic book, 2006)

The Worthing series
Books	Capitol (1979) Hot Sleep (1979) The Worthing Chronicle (1983) The Worthing Saga (1990)

Other works
Homecoming Saga	The Memory of Earth (1992) The Call of Earth (1992) The Ships of Earth (1994) Earthfall (1995) Earthborn (1995)
Women of Genesis	Sarah (2000) Rebekah (2001) Rachel and Leah (2004) The Wives of Israel (TBA)
Mithermages series	Sandmagic (1979) Stonefather (2008) The Lost Gate (2011) The Gate Thief (2013) Gatefather (2015)
Mayflower series	Lovelock (1994) Rasputin (TBA)
The Empire duet	Empire (2006) Hidden Empire (2009)
The Pathfinder series	Pathfinder (2010) Ruins (2012) Visitors (2014)
Standalone novels	A Planet Called Treason (1979) Songmaster (1980) Hart's Hope (1983) Saints (1984) Wyrms (1987) Treason (1988) The Abyss (1989) Lost Boys (1992) Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus (1996) Treasure Box (1996) Stone Tables (1997) Homebody (1998) Enchantment (1999) Magic Street (2005) Invasive Procedures (2007) Bully and the Beast (TBA)
Story collections	Unaccompanied Sonata and Other Stories (1980) Cardography (1987) The Folk of the Fringe (1989) Maps in a Mirror (1990) Keeper of Dreams (2008)
Other works	Listen, Mom and Dad (1977) Ainge (1981) Saintspeak (1981) Eye for Eye (1987) Loom (1990) The Secret of Monkey Island (1990) The Dig (1995) NeoHunter (1996) Magic Mirror (1999) Robota (2003) An Open Book (2004) Ultimate Iron Man (2005) Advent Rising (2005) InterGalactic Medicine Show (2005) Hamlet's Father (2011) Firefall (2014)

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