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John Scalzi is one of the most popular and acclaimed SF authors to emerge in the last decade. 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, and also Redshirts, which won 2013's Hugo Award for Best Novel. Material from his widely read blog Whatever has also earned him two other Hugo Awards. He lives in Ohio with his wife and daughter.Scalzi is one of the slickest writers that SF has ever produced
Wall Street Journal
Will keep you obsessively turning the pages until you are either fired or kicked out of bed. This is the kind of thriller that Michael Crichton, Lincoln Child, and James Rollins do so well. Add John Scalzi to that list
- Douglas Preston on <i>Lock In</i>,
John Scalzi is the most entertaining, accessible writer working in SF today
- Joe Hill, author of <i>The Fireman</i> and <i>The Black Phone</i>,
Scalzi is a master at creating appealing commercial fiction
Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Gripping and surpassingly original. It's <i>Starship Troopers</i> without the lectures
- Cory Doctorow, author of <i>Walkaway</i>, on the Old Man's War series,
Clever dialogue, fast-paced story and strong characters
- <i>The Times</i> on the Old Man's War series,
It gladdens the reader's heart . . . great fun
- <i>The Daily Telegraph</i> on the Old Man's War series,
Top-notch. His combat scenes are blood roiling
- <i>The Washington Post</i> on the Old Man's War series,
The universe is a hostile place in John Scalzi's The End of All Things the sixth in The Old Man's War series.
Our fate is in their hands . . .
The Colonial Union's Defence Force was formed to save humanity when aggressive alien species targeted our worlds. Now Lieutenant Harry Wilson has an urgent new mission, as a hostile universe becomes ever more dangerous. He must investigate a sinister group, which lurks in the darkness of space playing different factions against one another. They'll target both humans and aliens, and their motives are unfathomable.
The Defence Force itself is weakening as its soldiers fall – without recruits to replace them. Relations with Earth have broken down and it will send no more troops, even as human colonies become increasingly vulnerable to alien attack.
Lieutenant Wilson and Colonial Union diplomats must race to keep the peace, seek reconciliation with an enraged Earth, and maintain humanity's unity at all costs. If they don't, it will mean oblivion, extinction and the end of all things.
‘John Scalzi is the most entertaining, accessible writer working in SF today’ – Joe Hill, author of The Fireman
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