The Human Division

· Old Man's War Book 5 · Sold by Tor Books
4.5
374 reviews
Ebook
432
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Following the events of The Last Colony, John Scalzi tells the story of the fight to maintain the unity of the human race.

The people of Earth now know that the human Colonial Union has kept them ignorant of the dangerous universe around them. For generations the CU had defended humanity against hostile aliens, deliberately keeping Earth an ignorant backwater and a source of military recruits. Now the CU's secrets are known to all. Other alien races have come on the scene and formed a new alliance—an alliance against the Colonial Union. And they've invited the people of Earth to join them. For a shaken and betrayed Earth, the choice isn't obvious or easy.

Against such possibilities, managing the survival of the Colonial Union won't be easy, either. It will take diplomatic finesse, political cunning...and a brilliant "B Team," centered on the resourceful Lieutenant Harry Wilson, that can be deployed to deal with the unpredictable and unexpected things the universe throws at you when you're struggling to preserve the unity of the human race.

Being published online from January to April 2013 as a three-month digital serial, The Human Division will appear as a full-length novel of the Old Man's War universe, plus—for the first time in print—the first tale of Lieutenant Harry Wilson, and a coda that wasn't part of the digital serialization.

Old Man's War Series
#1 Old Man’s War
#2 The Ghost Brigades
#3 The Last Colony
#4 Zoe’s Tale
#5 The Human Division
#6 The End of All Things
Short fiction: “After the Coup”

Other Tor Books
The Android’s Dream
Agent to the Stars
Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded
Fuzzy Nation
Redshirts
Lock In
The Collapsing Empire (forthcoming)

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Ratings and reviews

4.5
374 reviews
Mateusz Kowalewski
May 23, 2020
The first half is BS, the second half is marginally better, if you like politics. There are a few good jokes here and there, yet it is staggering how much story one can make about incompetence. Other thing about the plot is the choice of the options in difficult situations characters in this book are presented with. I did find it peculiar, and not very believable. I very much preferred the second book in the series. Sorry.
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Benjamin Donovan
May 30, 2013
I found this to be enjoyable, but it is a series of short tales featuring the same characters rather than a long single story. This is due to the fact that the chapters were originally released as individual novellas. There is a background plot that ties the chapters together, but it doesn't get fully resolved by the end of the book. Perhaps there is more to come?
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Bob
April 20, 2014
Human Division is a well done collection of short stories that move some smaller players in the Old Mans War universe forward. There is no resolution at the end of the book and it is clearly prepping for another book.
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About the author

JOHN SCALZI is the author of several SF novels including his massively successful debut Old Man's War and the New York Times bestsellers The Last Colony, Fuzzy Nation, and Redshirts. He is a winner of science fiction's John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and he won the Hugo Award for Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded, a collection of essays from his popular blog The Whatever. He lives in Ohio with his wife and daughter.

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