New York Times best-selling author Orson Scott Card is teaming up with Marvel Entertainment to pen Formic Wars, a series of seven graphic comics that serves as a prequel to his popular sci-fi epic Ender's Game. The first and second installment in the series is set to be released by February next year.

Ender's Game is one of the most popular science fiction epics with seven million copies sold. Followers of the sci-fi epic have long been clamoring for a prequel, which is set to happen in Formic Wars focusing on the origin of the universe where Ender's Game is set.

Orson Scott Card will work with co-writer Aaron Johnston and artist Giancarlo Caracuzzon to write the Formic Wars in graphic fiction format. The prequel sees Ender's Game protagonist Andrew "Ender" Wiggin fighting in the Third Formic War when humans battled the Formics on Earth twice.

"I've been so happy with Marvel's comic-book adaptation of Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, Ender in Exile and Speaker of the Dead that I wanted my long-imagined story of the Formic Wars to appear first in this wonderfully visualized form," said Orson Scott Card,

"With a whole new set of characters, putting together a ragtag fleet of improvised and adapted spacecraft to take on an alien invader, I think these are some of the best, most inspiring stories in the Ender's Game future history, and through the work of Marvel's great team of writers and artists, my tales are coming to life with a power and reality I never could have managed on my own."

Aside from the upcoming Formic Wars series, Ender's Game consists of eleven novels and ten short stories at present. The first two novels Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead, each won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards.

Ender's Game is set in a future where mankind faces annihilation by an aggressive alien society, "Formics" an insect-like race known colloquially as "Buggers". One of the distinct feature of the series is its taking in of time-space relativity, which set it to become one of the most influential science fiction in the1980s.