Il s'agit du deuxième tome d'une trilogie sur « la première guerre formique », où Card nous livre enfin le récit du premier contact entre l'humanité et les Formiques que combat Ender. JI décrit une société future cohérente et pose les bases de La Stratégie Ender en y introduisant le personnage clé, Mazer Rackham, ce militaire d'origine maori qui formera Ender.
In a near future world in which genetic therapy holds both great promise and deadly dangers, Frank Hartman, a brilliant virologist working for the government's top-secret biohazard agency, is the only man capable of stopping George Galen, a pioneering geneticist who has come up with a way to "improve" humans by making them stronger, healthier, and compliant to his will. Reprint.
Struggling with outdated systems and claim-jumping corporate interests in the deeps of the Kuiper Belt, a family on board the mining ship El Cavador spots an object moving toward the solar system that triggers a catastrophic war.