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	Formics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Formics are able to communicate instantaneously via philotic connections; through studying the Formic technology leftover as wreckage from the Formic Wars, humans learned to harness gravity, and faster-than-light communication via the ansible which uses the same type of philotic connections that the Formics used.
		The initial reaction at the destruction of all of the Formics was jubilation on the part of humanity.
		The Formics placed the egg on the colony world in a landscape terraformed to match the outlay of the landscape in a psychoanalytical game that Ender played in Battle School, so that he would recognize it.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Formics (405 words)

	www.kemira.com - Germany - Deutsch - Aktuell - Formics
		The environmentally friendly formic acid is the simplest organic acid present in nature and in addition to ants, it can also be found in various other plant and animal species.
		Formic acid is mostly used in chemical processing, pH-control, preservation of agricultural and industrial processes and cleaning applications.
		Formic acid products can replace the non-prescribed antibiotics in animal feed and the objective of their use is to improve the feed quality and safety.
	www.kemira.com /Germany/Deutsch/Aktuell/Formics (331 words)

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		Mazer's victory of the Formics had hinged on the fact that, when there were only a few starship fighters able to keep the invaders away from Earth, he had attacked and blown up one ship - and the entire enemy army died in space.
		The Formics, he later theorised, were a hive species, with a number of workers under the will of a queen.
		Formics have no initiative, but every one of Ender's squadron leaders has a mind of their own.
	www.srcf.ucam.org /~ajl59/Ender/Misc/book/book1.htm (1426 words)

	Battle School - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the science fiction novel Ender's Game and its sequels, by Orson Scott Card, Battle School was a military academy in Earth orbit.
		In Card's fictional future universe, humanity is at war with an alien species known as the Formics, or, colloquially, buggers.
		Battle School is the training ground for the future leaders of Earth's war effort—most notably Ender Wiggin and Bean.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_School (394 words)

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		The Formics figure out that the weapon need a great amount of mass to work so they do not get their ships that close any more.
		Combined this knowledge of the Formics with his vast military and strategic knowledge to over come the challenge in front of him.
		The training that Ender and Bean received was at times unfair and one-sided, but it prepared their minds and bodies for war against the evil alien.
	damoo.csun.edu:8888 /14724 (1611 words)

	Bugger - TheBestLinks.com - Formics, Australian English, Ansible, British English, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Formics, Bugger, Australian English, Ansible, British English, The Fast Show...
		The word can also used amongst friends in an affectionate way (You old bugger) and is also used as a noun in Welsh-English vernacular to imply that one is very fond of something (I'm a bugger for welshcakes)
		In Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game series of science fiction novels, the insectoid Formics, an alien species, are usually referred to by the informal and derogatory term buggers because of their insect-like appearance.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Formics.html (285 words)

	CNN - Review: 'Ender's Shadow' - July 30, 1999
		In order to find battle leaders intelligent enough but also malleable enough to be able to think like the enemy, Earth recruits and trains young children to lead its battle fleet.
		Bean must rise up from being a beggar on the mean streets of Rotterdam and get noticed by the international fleet as a recruit for its military training.
		It spins a thrilling tale of Bean's rise from urchin to child warrior to political strategist to Ender's lieutenant commander during the war.
	edition.cnn.com /books/reviews/9907/30/enders.shadow (950 words)

	Formics: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Formics share a single hive-mind (A hive mind (sometimes spelled hivemind) is a form of collective consciousness strongly exhibiting traits...)
		The initial reaction at the destruction of all of the Formics was jubilation on the part of humanity (The quality of being humane)
		The Formics placed the egg on the colony world in a landscape (A genre of art dealing with the depiction of natural scenery)
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /ref/formics (907 words)

	Ender’s Shadow - Orson Scott Card
		A couple hundred years in the future, an enigmatic, insect-like alien race called the Formics (but referred to by most people as the "Buggers") has attacked the Earth twice.
		In an attempt to increase their chances of victory in the inevitable Third Invasion, the world government (a tenuous alliance held together only by the threat of the Formics) starts collecting exceptionally bright children and shipping them off to an orbital Battle School to train them for the next invasion.
		In the hopes that one of the children will turn out to be the next Alexander the Great or Napoleon, they group the children into "armies" that compete with each other in a war game around which most of the Battle School’s activity revolves.
	www.unb.ca /web/bruns/9900/issue15/entertainment/book1.html (1289 words)

	The Philotic Web Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		I am not sure exactly about the Formics, if every single one of them has a self-identity or not, but it is certainly an interesting subject.
		I don't really have any deeply philosphical, but I would like to say that that sequence in Xenocide near the end where Human and the Hive Queen were talking about how the humans had finally found a replacement for the Descolada was one of the funniest sequences in that series.
		I believe she is a great character in the series, besides I like how OSC uses her to give an alien point of view about humanity while she is discussing with Human.
	www.philoticweb.net /openbb/read.php?TID=5973 (705 words)

	"Ender's Game" quiz -- free game
		Ender was tricked into fighting the final battles against the Formics without even knowing about it.
		Ender was able to communicate instantaneously with the ships sent to the Formic home world despite the fact that they were dozens of light years away.
		A fleet of Formics that had escaped Ender's attack wreaked havoc on Europe and the USA
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=151450&origin= (836 words)

	Battle School - Search
		They thought the Formics were gone for good.
		Ender was sent to a colony planet where he could not be used in the war which was about to break out on Earth.
		All you have been specially chosen by the I.F. to be trained as soldiers to defeat Earth's biggest threat; the Formics.
	formicwar.proboards3.com /index.cgi?action=search (133 words)

	Science News for Kids: SciFiZone
		It is set in the future, when humans have begun leaving Earth, but in leaving, they have run into a foreign species, the formics, or buggers.
		They are a species who made no attempt to communicate with humans and simply killed all humans they met.
		He’s smart enough to know that the formics will come again and that time is running out.
	www.sciencenewsforkids.org /articles/20030924/SciFiBooks.asp (334 words)

	Science Fiction Book Reviews
		Bean convinces the crew to try his plan for getting past the older, stronger and more vicious street kids and gaining access to Helga's soup kitchen.
		Helga's is a front for the Battle School, a war effort that trains quick, intelligent children on video games that prepare them to fight the Buggers, the race officially known as the Formics, which has been attacking Earth for some years now.
		The unnaturally precocious Bean is recruited to the space station that is the Battle School.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue129/books.html (1061 words)

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		In preparation for a third war with the Formics and under the pretext of a military academy, the military trains young children to become experts in 3-D military tactics in outer space.
		They are the enemy in the sense of being gender oppressors, and the enemy in the sense of being representatives of the imperialists taking the line that the Formic alien nation needs to be physically liquidated.
		It it tempting to let the whole "bugger"/"Bugger" (the colloquial name for the alien Formics) thing slide as being just a laughably bad choice of words, and the casual nudity as just a matter of the Battle School children being junior-high-age and younger.
	www.etext.org /Politics/MIM/bookstore/books/fiction/endersgame.html (10845 words)

	Shadow Puppets
		In this installment of the now classic Ender saga, Earth and its society have been irrevocably changed in the aftermath of Ender Wiggin's victory over the Formics.
		Ender Wiggins led the victory over the Formics, but his brother Peter is named the Hegemon, leader of the waning worldwide government, a victim of its own success.
		Peter learns that the Chinese are afraid and weary of his rival Achilles, who has helped them expand their boundaries.
	www.zooscape.com /cgi-bin/maitred/WhitePulp/isbn1574535285 (460 words)

	OKCupid! formics / 31 / m / straight / Memphis, Tennessee, United States (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		formics / 31 / m / straight / Memphis, Tennessee, United States
		We have a very good understanding of formics.
		If you'd like to send formics a message, see how you match, take user-written tests, or just browse around, we're happy to have you.
	www.okcupid.com /profile?tuid=5824928544837128825 (318 words)

	Plot Summary for Ender's Game (2008) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Ender Wiggin is a Third, born through special permission form the government, and is placed as the only savior of Earth from alien Formics, commonly known as "Buggers".
		Bean is an orphan from the streets of Rotterdam, where everyone must have an ally to survive.
		Andrew "Ender" Wiggin is a third - a child born outside of the two child limit with the hope that he will be the one with the talent and the temperment to beat back the Formic, twice near-invaders of a future Earth.
	indie.imdb.com /title/tt0400403/plotsummary (354 words)

	Borders - Store Inventory - Title Detail - Shadow Puppets, Ender Ser.
		Description: Earth and its society have been irrevocably changed in the aftermath of Ender Wiggin's victory over the Formics.
		He and his wife, Kristine, are the parents of five children: Geoffrey, Emily, Charles, Zina Margaret, and Erin Louisa (named for Chaucer, Bronte and Dickinson, Dickens, Mitchell, and Alcott, respectively).
		Description: In this installment of the now classic Ender saga, Earth and its society have been irrevocably changed in the aftermath of Ender Wiggin's victory over the Formics.
	www.bordersstores.com /search/title_detail.jsp?id=53021554 (281 words)

	Jedi Council Forums - Shadow Tactics: An Ender RPG (Non-SW)
		History: Han Tzu, one of the greatest military minds ever born, was instrumental in the defeat of the Formics.
		Was there for one year before the conclusion of the Formic war and was sent back down to earth.
		He had heard the newscasts after the defeat of the Formics and recognized the name.
	boards.theforce.net /Message.aspx?topic=16521855 (4260 words)

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		Bestselling author Orson Scott Card brings to life a new chapter in the saga of Ender's Earth.
		Earth and its society have been changed irrevocably in the aftermath of Ender Wiggin's victory over the Formics.
		The unity forced upon the warring nations by an alien enemy has shattered.
	www.holtzbrinckpublishers.com /tor/book/BookDisplay.asp?BookKey=544199 (277 words)

	Ender's Game Script(s) - Fresco Pictures Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The name was changed because "bugger" is the equivelent of "shit" in some other language (it might even be English...), and OSC wants to avoid any similarities between Ender's Game (the movie) and Starship Troopers (the movie).
		The script of looking better all the time, it just to bad that most people dont have the patience to sit for more than 3 hours for a movie then we could just sit back and watch the story unfold.
		I would hope that the final script that we will see on screen will be true to this description.
	www.frescopictures.com /forums/mainforum/forum/Forum1/HTML/000746.html (4776 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Ender's Shadow - Orson Scott Card - Mass Market Paperback
		Ender's Game, first published in novel form in 1985, describes the relentlessly brutal education of Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, a preadolescent military genius believed to be humankind's last, best hope against the anticipated invasion of an insectile race of aliens called the Formics.
		As the novel opens, the Formics — popularly known as "the Buggers" — have already made two unsuccessful attempts to conquer and colonize Earth, and xenophobia now runs rampant, temporarily uniting a wide range of political and ideological factions.
		Ender, together with a handpicked group of gifted, if slightly less brilliant children, is conscripted and sent to a remote space station called the Battle School, where he participates in a series of war games that prepare him, by the age of 9, for the responsibilities of military command.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?z=y&pwb=1&ean=9780812575712 (1926 words)

	Jedi Council Forums - Battle School: War Games
		Extragalactic invaders called the Formics or "buggers" scoured Earth, leaving destruction in their wake.
		In order to combat these incredibly strategized invaders, every child on Earth was tested for an elite school of the world's geniuses to find the Commanders able to battle the Formics once again.
		Battle School is running out of time - it seems that the Formics are getting close to Earth.
	boards.theforce.net /Message.aspx?topic=19030816 (1629 words)

	Aaron's Picks - Books, Music, and Movies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Since this web page is generated dynamically from a database, each time you visit, a selection from each category is randomly chosen as the highlighted item.
		In the aftermath of the Formics War, the child-geniuses who helped Ender win that war return to Earth, each to his or her family and homeland.
		Suddenly, all across the globe, every single one of Ender's jeesh is kidnapped except Bean who barely escapes with his life.
	www.adg.us /picks?sid=4daeeapcveqrvh0p5qgsfsi123 (1663 words)

	LiteratureForums.net - Ender's Game and The War of the Worlds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		And yet it is a two edged sword that does not always obey he who wields it.
		Ender was told to hate the Formics, and instead he fell in love with them.
		And when he had taught humanity to love the Formics, they learned to hate Ender for what they had made him do.
	www.literatureforums.net /vb3/showthread.php?p=13067 (825 words)

	Ender's Game (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Ender's Game (1985) is the best-known novel by Orson Scott Card and is set in a future where mankind is facing annihilation by an aggressive alien society, the insectoid "Buggers" (more formally known as "Formics").
		Faced with extreme odds, humanity prepares to gamble all by preparing a coordinated all-out assault on the alien worlds.
		This site is an unnofficial site and has nothing official to do with Orson Scott Card or any of his books.
	www.endergame.com (127 words)

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