Great story, moves along very well.

This was a great precursor to the whole thing... Ready for he next in the series..

This is a great book, but don't bother reading it until the third one comes out; then plan to read the whole trilogy. The endings of these first two books are huge cliffhangers which will leave you as frustrated and annoyed as I am right now.

For fans of Ender, this is an entertaining prequel that provides a description of how the Formic Wars began. Full of the usual Scott Card logical musings by protagonists - if only our real leaders were that thoughtful. Feasible tech and plausible space flight complexities. A worthwhile read!

The authors took a few hints and fragments of the solar system before Ender's Game, and turned them into a fabulous story. Or half a story ... we still have a lot of remaining questions that I assume will be answered in the next book. Which I've already bought and am anxious to read.

I love OSC but I'm getting tired of great books ending before they are done. This story needed a hundred more pages and a mighty battle before we are just dumped. Crap !

I think instead of the traditional style of writing of OSC, he has developed his books into more of a series, but I enjoy this way as much as the others. Though I agree the cliff-hanger was slightly disappointing, what is better than a cliff-hanger to keep us waiting? Now that the sequel has also come out, I say this was a great addition to the line of Ender's world.

I have been reading sci_fi fifty five of my seventy years. I am a EE with a grounding in stellar mechanics. Scott is thurough In developing the character and places In all his great tales, and introduces a story direction Which drives a turn pager plot that is harder to lay down As one reads deeper into this book. This book must be followed by a sequel or three which I would purchase as soon as it was available. Please keep them coming Scott :-) ICeng

Finished this book brushing my teeth. Couldn't put it down. Really looking forward to the next two!

Solid book