Earth Unaware

I would really like this book, weren't there one really horrible error in it. Large pile of problems for its heroes stem from the "high velocity" of the spaceships, e.g. when docking with one another. The problem is that the authors mean an absolute velocity, not acceleration or relative velocities. Well when two objects move through empty space on the same vector with the same absolute velocity, their relative velocity is almost zero, so there's absolutely no reason why there should be any problem with them docking, nor is there any reason why the spaceships should decelerate or even "stop" for launching a shuttle... This is a really horrible mistake in very basic understanding of motion in space which plagues the book from start to end. Really annoyingly so. Totally destroyed immersion into the book.

This is a very good book about the events leading up to the two 'Formic Wars', which took place hundreds of years before Enders Game. A good story, and a good explanation to how Ender's society ended up the way it is. Can't wait to rd the next 2 books in this series.

Clearly a setup for the next 2 books in the series. As a result a little anticlimactic. Still very interesting to read about the first formic encounter and chronologically the first book in the series. If you're a fan of the enders series. Read the book.