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FORMIC WARS: SILENT STRIKE PREMIERE HC
AUTHOR: ORSON SCOTT CARD, AARON JOHNSTON ARTIST: GIANCARLO CARACUZZO ISBN: 978-0-7851-3614-9 PUB MONTH: JULY PRICE: $19.99
SUBJECT CATEGORY: PREMIERE RATING: PARENTAL ADVISORY TRIM SIZE: 6-5/8 X 10-3/16 PAGE COUNT: 120 TYPES OF ILLUSTRATION: COLOR
The all-new prequel to Orson Scott Card’s science-fiction classic Ender’s Game returns! With 44 million people killed by the toxic gas that the alien Formics unleashed in China, the only hope of a counter-agent lies with Mazer Rackham and the Mobile Operations Police safely retrieving a sample. Meanwhile, young asteroid miner Victor Delgado has snuck aboard the Formic mother ship in hopes of taking it down alone … and boy is he is for a big disappointment.
COLLECTING: FORMIC WARS: SILENT STRIKE 1-5 Comp Title: ENDER’S GAME: FORMIC WARS - BURNING EARTH PREMIERE HC ISBN: 978-0-7851-3609-5 Comp Title: ENDER’S GAME: BATTLE SCHOOL PREMIERE HC ISBN: 978-0-7851-3580-7
Orson Scott Card is the New York Times bestselling author of dozens of novels, including Ender’s Shadow, Wyrms and The Seventh Son. He is the only author in history to have won both the Hugo and Nebula awards for best novel two years in a row, which he received for two of his best-loved books, Ender’s Game and Speaker for the Dead. Card has written Ultimate Iron Man and Ultimate Iron Man II for Marvel Comics, which has also successfully adapted his Red Prophet: The Tales of Alvin Maker and Wyrms through the Marvel Best Selling Authors imprint. In addition, 2009 saw the first releases of his Ender’s Game adaptations in Ender’s Game: Battle School by Christopher Yost and Pasqual Ferry, and Ender’s Shadow: Battle School by Mike Carey and Sebastian Fiumara.
Italian artist Giancarlo Caracuzzo started his career in comics at Italy’s Acme Periodicals, also logging stints working for Universe and Bonelli. He moved on to the U.S. scene in 2009, illustrating IDW Publishing’s zombie epic, The Last Resort. He’s also been the artist on Marvel’s 2010 Gorilla-Man and Image Comics’ Random Acts of Violence.
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