Mazer Rackham wants to develop microgravity tactics and equipment to fight the Formics in space, but all his superiors care about, he finds, is advancing their own careers and fortunes. The narrative-far too much bureaucratic and domestic padding interspersed with far too infrequent, though sensational, action sequences-unfolds chiefly through the viewpoints of the same leading characters of the first trilogy. It’s a situation that fascinates, certainly, but so would any plausible existential threat. But now the colossal mothership commanded by the Formics' Hive Queen, lurking beyond the solar system's Kuiper belt, gears up for a real fight. Previously, the Chinese army, assisted by corporate and international military forces, defeated the first invasion of Earth, but only, scientists ascertain, because it was executed by a single scout ship charged with wiping out the local life forms and replacing them with Formic-compatible ones.
This time the invading alien Formics get serious. A second prequel trilogy to the child-warrior Ender's Game series ( Earth Awakens, 2014, etc.) opens.
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