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Earth Afire
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye, Arthur Morey, Stefan Rudnicki, Vikas Adam, Gabrielle de Cuir, Roxanne Hernandez, Emily Rankin
- Series: The First Formic War, Book 2, The Enderverse, Book 2
- Length: 15 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction
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Publisher's Summary
One hundred years before Ender's Game, the aliens arrived on Earth with fire and death. Earth Afire by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston 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.
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- Gavin Frei
- 2020-12-14
The book is great. The voice acting is not
Nearly all of the voice actors are over-acting their parts. struggling to force emotional content that is unrealistic and makes it sound like a children's play.
The actors try too hard to make each voice unique, leading to bizarre and comical characters that totally pull you out of the story and into the vocal studio.
The story and book itself are fantastic, and I would love to hear a more neutral, normal rendition of the audiobook, so that I can use my own imagination to enjoy the book, rather than being forced to accept some actor's interpretation.
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- SAMA
- 2013-07-17
This is why I enjoy Orson Scott Card's work
I gave a less than generous review for the previous book, but this action packed book with geopolitical themes is what makes Orson Scott Card shine. Highly recommended.
6 people found this helpful
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- DocJim
- 2013-06-06
This is a GREAT adventure Sci-Fi Book. Masterful!
I fell in love with Sci-Fi from reading "Ender's Game" many, many, years ago. Even great writers like Orson Scott Card can write mediocre stories -- but this one fits in the very top of the master's work and Sci-Fi as a whole! It kept me a gripped for hours. The narration was great. If you are a fan of Card you must read this one. Prequels are not always good, but this one is BEYOND good and would fit in the great category.
15 people found this helpful
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- Beth
- 2013-06-06
Wow
What did you love best about Earth Afire?
Fast paced and action packed
What did you like best about this story?
All the different angles, agendas and depth of the different characters, as usual from Mr. Card
Have you listened to any of the narrators’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
I have listened to many of these narrator`s many times in other publications, and this one is right at the top. Great!!!
If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?
Be ready to experience the gambit of emotions. This one has it all.
Any additional comments?
I just have two words for Mr. Card. Write Faster.
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- Rand W.
- 2019-08-22
Not bad by any means...
and a great edition to the story, but the cliffhanger makes it feel incomplete. It feels like a half-book. There's no definite ending as found in cards other works. Definitely feels as if this was a back-burner book while he was writing something else.
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- Chidwick
- 2018-06-14
An ok addition
The idea of a prequel series to Enders game is intriguing. To me it falls a little flat. You’re following a much larger group of people and hearing the story from several points of view. This is a big departure from Enders game where you may hear from different people but not as many in this series. This book could be a number of novelettes or comics and would fit right in, but in my opinion it’s too fractious in structure to hold up as a novel.
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- Andrew A
- 2017-05-26
Fresh story experience in a constrained storyworld
Even though I know the ultimate outcome of the first bugger war, nothing in the narrative feels certain. Very well written. I'd love to see Hollywood take as fresh and imaginative an approach to storytelling as this does.
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- Andy
- 2017-04-21
very good story, good pace, niece lectors
I enjoyed the second book the same amount as the first one. Recommend for every Enders Game fan.
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- Robert Davis, Professor of Physics, Provo Utah
- 2017-01-15
Riveting, moving book
Keep me entranced. How does Card keep doing it? Great characters and great alien invasion.
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- steve
- 2013-06-23
Not a book, an installment with a cliff hanger
This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?
Love the story but that Orson Scott Card has resorted to this cheap tactic of making us buy the next book to find out what happens.is dissapointing
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- Cory
- 2013-09-22
Wow, that was disapointing.
This book did not work for me, it feels like one of those books written years later by the talentless sons of a great author, similar to the Dune books being put out by Brian Hubert.
Some of the plot points simply feel like a check list bring drawn from a list titles "Things that must happen for Ender's Game to make sense."
Instead of making a great book Card has made a book that simply "Fits" in the Ender's Universe.
8 people found this helpful