Aaron Johnston is an American author, comics writer, and film producer. Johnston was an associate producer on the movie ''

Ender's Game ''Ender's Game'' is a 1985 military science fiction novel by American author Orson Scott Card. Set at an unspecified date in Earth's future, the novel presents an imperiled humankind after two conflicts with an insectoid alien species they ...

'', including a

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as an International Fleet officer. He co-authored with

Orson Scott Card Orson Scott Card (born August 24, 1951) is an American writer known best for his science fiction works. , he is the only person to have won a Hugo Award for Best Novel, Hugo Award and a Nebula Award for Best Novel, Nebula Award in List of joint ...

the First Formic War trilogy, a prequel series to ''

''. The series includes ''Earth Unaware'', ''Earth Afire'', and ''Earth Awakens.'' His second pre Ender series includes ''The Swarm'' and ''The Hive''. These are concluded with the final tales of the second Formic war relayed in ''The Queens'', setting the stage for Orson Scott Card's ''Ender's Game'' series and the third Formic war. His comic credits for

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include ''Ender in Exile'', ''Speaker for the Dead'', ''Formic Wars'', ''League War'', and ''Mazer in Prison''. He is a writer for

BYUtv BYUtv is an American television channel and free family-friendly streaming service, founded in 2000, which is owned and operated as a part of Brigham Young University (BYU). The channel, available on most smart TVs or through cable and satellite ...

's original series ''

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'' and provides the voice for Blue Drone in the series. His play Lifeloop is an adaptation of

's short story. Johnston is a

Mormon Mormons are a religious and cultural group related to Mormonism, the principal branch of the Latter Day Saint movement started by Joseph Smith in upstate New York during the 1820s. After Smith's death in 1844, the movement split into several ...

. He first met Card when he was in the same LDS stake as him in North Carolina.

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Sources

About Aaron - aaronwjohnston.comAARON JOHNSTON
– MacMillan

External links

Aaron Johnston - IMDB
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