<DIV></DIV><P>One hundred years before <I>Ender's Game</I>, the aliens arrived on Earth with fire and death. <I>Earth Afire </I>by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston is the story of the First Formic War.<BR><BR>Victor Delgado beat the alien ship to Earth, but just barely. Not soon enough to convince skeptical governments that there was a threat. They didn’t believe that until space stations and ships and colonies went up in sudden flame.<BR><BR>And when that happened, only Mazer Rackham and the Mobile Operations Police could move fast enough to meet the threat.