The End of All Things

384 pages

English language

Published Aug. 11, 2015 by Tor Books.

ISBN:
978-0-7653-7607-7
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Humans expanded into space…only to find a universe populated with multiple alien species bent on their destruction. Thus was the Colonial Union formed, to help protect us from a hostile universe. The Colonial Union used the Earth and its excess population for colonists and soldiers. It was a good arrangement...for the Colonial Union. Then the Earth said: no more.   Now the Colonial Union is living on borrowed time—a couple of decades at most, before the ranks of the Colonial Defense Forces are depleted and the struggling human colonies are vulnerable to the alien species who have been waiting for the first sign of weakness, to drive humanity to ruin. And there’s another problem: A group, lurking in the darkness of space, playing human and alien against each other—and against their own kind —for their own unknown reasons.   In this collapsing universe, CDF Lieutenant Harry Wilson and the Colonial Union diplomats …

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reviewed The End of All Things by John Scalzi (Old Man’s War #6)

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I liked this much less than many other of Scalzi's books, I think for two reasons. The first is that it doesn't follow one or two characters all the way through. Now, it does follow a relatively small cast, and many of them we already know from The Human Division, but generally I prefer to spend a whole novel following the same person and getting to know them deeply, rather than these shorter novellas each focused on a different character (with the others in the background). I will say Scalzi did an excellent job with the format, pulling it together into a cohesive whole, but still not my cup of tea.
Secondly, it is very political. It's not that the book touches on modern issues which have been politicized, but that the subject of the book is, fundamentally, intergalactic politics. Again, interesting, but I prefer to view politics from a …

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