The hardcover graphic novel compiling the Formic Wars: Silent Strike issues 1-5 will be released by Marvel on July 25, 2012. Written by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston and illustrated by Giancarlo Caracuzzo, the story is a prequel to Ender’s Game.
A limited five-issue series, Silent Strike began monthly releases in December 2011 and features all new content. Pre-orders can be placed with Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble for $14.12.
Our friends over at Ender’s Ansible have re-kindled a campaign they started last year to get Ender’s Game onto NPR’s Best 100 Books, which has just recently opened up to nominations for this year’s list. Last year’s category focused on science fiction and fantasy and thanks to fans, Ender’s Game made it on the list as #3. You can check out last year’s list here.
This year NPR has chosen a Young Adult theme for their list.
To nominate Ender’s Game (the series), you’ll need to either log in or register at NPR and then comment with your nominations. They’ll let you nominate up to five books at once, so if you’re a big Harry Potter or Hunger Games fan, you won’t have to choose Ender’s Game over those, you just need to include it in your list!
Even if other people nominate the books you want to nominate, you should still comment if you can since nominations count as votes later down the line. The rules:
1. Limit yourself to five titles per post. Don’t hesitate to nominate a book that someone else has already listed; your entry will count as a vote that will help that title progress to the next round.
2. Nominate “multivolume novels” as one work. The Harry Potter series or the Hunger Games trilogy, for example, will be judged as single, collective works — so don’t bother listing the separate titles in the series.
3. That said, not all series are “multivolume novels.” To be judged as a collective work, the books in a series must be written by the same originating author or authors and must tell a more or less continuous story — usually about a consistent group of characters. So, you can’t nominate the whole Goosebumps series as such, but you can nominate The Horror at Camp Jellyjam as an individual work.
Thanks in advance for helping nominate the series!
Smart Pop Books will be publishing ‘Ender’s World: Fresh Perspectives on the SF Classic‘, a collection of essays written by almost two dozen writers and edited by Orson Scott Card himself, in February 2013, but 25 lucky fans won’t need to wait that long to get their hands on a copy.
Visit Smart Pop Books at booth #4300 at the 2012 San Diego Comic Con and you can enter to win one of 25 advance copies of the book. Head over to Smart Pop Books to see what else they have in store for SDCC.
They will also be giving out free copies of their preview volume, which will include an essay by Hilari Bell called ‘Winning and Losing in Ender’s Game‘.
Ender’s World: Fresh Perspectives on the SF Classic Ender’s Game, edited by Orson Scott Card, comes out in February 2013. But we’re giving 25 Comic-Con attendees the chance to read it first.
Come by booth #4300 and ask us to scan your badge to be entered to win an advance copy of Ender’s World. We’ll pick the winners after the end of the convention and notify you via email. Then we’ll ship you your copy, hot off the presses, as soon as they’re printed!
The preview volume will also include excerpts from their upcoming books about ‘The Hunger Games’ and ‘A Game of Thrones’.
Publisher Smart Pop Books will be releasing a book of essays next February and are now accepting questions for Orson Scott Card to include in a Q&A section of their book.
Alongside those essays, we’re putting together some Q&As with Orson Scott Card to add throughout the book. Why is the Battle Room a cube? Why did the military recruit their soldiers as children? How does the queen survive until Ender finds her?
Here’s your chance to get in on it: Card wants to give you the opportunity to ask him anything you’ve ever wondered about Ender’s Game!
To submit your question to Orson Scott Card, head over to the Smart Pop Books Tumblr! A Tumblr account is not required to comment.
Fans eagerly awaiting the release of Orson Scott Card’s latest Enderverse novel, Earth Unaware: The First Formic War
Synopsis:
The mining ship El Cavador is far out from Earth, in the deeps of the Kuiper Belt, beyond Pluto. Other mining ships, and the families that live on them, are few and far between this far out. So when El Cavador’s telescopes pick up a fast-moving object coming in-system, it’s hard to know what to make of it. It’s massive and moving at a significant fraction of the speed of light.
El Cavador has other problems. Their systems are old and failing. The family is getting too big for the ship. There are claim-jumping corporate ships bringing Asteroid Belt tactics to the Kuiper Belt. Worrying about a distant object that might or might not be an alien ship seems…not important.
They’re wrong. It’s the most important thing that has happened to the human race in a million years. The first Formic War is about to begin.
Earth Unaware will be released in hardcover and e-book editions on July 17, 2012.