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John Scalzi is one of the most popular and acclaimed SF authors of his generation. His debut, Old Man’s War, won him science fiction’s John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. His New York Times bestsellers include The Last Colony, Fuzzy Nation, Lock In, Redshirts – which won 2013’s Hugo Award for Best Novel – The Last Emperox and The Kaiju Preservation Society. Material from his widely read blog, Whatever, has also earned him two other Hugo Awards. He lives in Ohio with his wife and daughter.John Scalzi writes science fiction that is fun, intelligent and irreverent . . . I haven’t enjoyed science fiction this much in years
- Christopher Paolini, author of <i>Eragon</i>, on the Old Man’s War series,
<i>Old Man’s War </i>is classic SF seen from a modern perspective – a fast-paced tour of a daunting, hostile universe
- Robert Charles Wilson, author of <i>Spin</i>, on <i>Old Man’s War</i>,
I enjoyed <i>Old Man’s War </i>immensely. A space war story with fast action, vivid characters, moral complexity and cool speculative physics, set in a future you almost want to live in, and a universe you sincerely hope you don’t live in already
- Ken MacLeod, author of the Lightspeed Trilogy, on <i>Old Man’s War</i>,
I can honestly say I can’t think of another book that ever made me laugh this much. Ever
- Patrick Rothfuss,<i> New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>The Name of the Wind, </i>on<i> Redshirts</i>,
Scalzi takes apart the whole Star Trek universe and puts it back together far more plausibly – and a lot funnier too
- Lev Grossman, <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author of <i>The Magicians</i>, on <i>Redshirts</i>,
After a decade, acclaimed Hugo Award winner and science fiction master John Scalzi returns to the Old Man’s War series with the long-awaited seventh book, The Shattering Peace.
For a decade, peace has reigned in interstellar space due to agreements between the Colonial Union, Earth and the alien Conclave. But now the most advanced, intelligent species humans have ever met is on the cusp of a species-defining war. Nothing the Consu does, however, is just about them. The Colonial Union, Earth and the Conclave have been unwillingly dragged into their conflict, and in the most surprising of ways.
Gretchen Trujillo is a mid-level bureaucrat in a mundane job within the Colonial Union’s State Department. Until, that is, she’s called to take part in a secret mission that will involve representatives from every powerful faction in space. What she discovers could redefine the destinies of humans and aliens alike . . . or destroy every one of them.
The Hugo Award-nominated The Old Man’s War series by John Scalzi is sharp, funny, action-packed science fiction, in the vein of Robert Heinlein’s classic Starship Troopers. Scalzi’s light touch and comic dialogue make this the perfect entry point for readers new to science fiction, as well as for veteran SF fans. Set in a future where human beings have spread out across the galaxy, the series opens with Old Man’s War, in which 75-year-old John Perry joins the army. The Colonial Defence Forces have the technology to transplant his consciousness into a much younger body crafted from his original DNA – but in return, he owes them two years of service defending humanity from hostile aliens. Space, it turns out, is a lot more dangerous than he expected.
‘Gripping and surpassingly original lectures . . . It's funny, it's sad, and it's true’ Cory Doctorow
‘John Scalzi is the most entertaining, accessible writer working in SF today’ Joe Hill