02297cam a2200337 4500 607540388 TxAuBib 20160809120000.0 160721s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780765375629 hardcover 0765375621 hardcover (OCoLC)953833134 CGL eng CGL rda CGL JTH OCLCO OCO UOK TxAuBib Card, Orson Scott, author. The swarm / Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston. First edition. New York : Tor, 2016. 462 pages ; 24 cm. Second Formic War Trilogy ; 1 "Volume one of the Second Formic War". "A Tom Doherty Associates book.". The first invasion of Earth was beaten back by a coalition of corporate and international military forces, and the Chinese army. China has been devastated by the Formic's 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. There is a mothership out beyond the Solar System's Kuiper Belt, and it's heading into the system, unstoppable by any weapons that Earth can muster. Earth has been reorganized for defense. There is now a Hegemon, a planetary official responsible for keeping all the formerly warring nations in line. There's a Polemarch, responsible for organizing all the military forces of the planet into the new International Fleet. But there is an enemy within, an enemy as old as human warfare: ambition and politics. Greed and self-interest. Will Bingwen, Mazer Rackam, Victor Delgado and Lem Juke be able to divert those very human enemies in time to create a weapon that can effectively defend humanity in the inexorable Second Formic War? 20160809. Space warfare Fiction. Space flight Fiction. Human-alien encounters Fiction. Science fiction. Johnston, Aaron, author. Second Formic War Trilogy ; 1. TXMIT