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"EARTH UNAWARE: The First Formic War," by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston, Tor Hardcover, $24.99, 368 pages (f)
Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston have teamed up to mine the backstory of Card's science-fiction classic "Ender's Game," and the result is a satisfying first entry in a series that will tell the events leading up to the "First Formic War."
That war, a conflict between humans and ant-like aliens called "buggers," is familiar territory for readers of the Ender series, which now numbers a dozen books and several short stories.
But readers don't need to be familiar with the "Enderverse" to enjoy this prequel, which takes place about two generations before the...