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The Shattering Peace
The Shattering Peace: The acclaimed Old Man's War series returns in this military sci-fi adventure | John Scalzi
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Peace is an illusion . . . After a decade, acclaimed Hugo Award winner and science fiction master John Scalzi returns to the Old Mans War series with the long-awaited seventh book, The Shattering Peace. For a decade, peace has reigned in interstellar space. An agreement between the Colonial Union, Earth and the alien Conclave has kept the forces of war at bay. But there is a new force that threatens the hard-maintained peace: The Consu. The most advanced intelligent species humans have ever met are on the cusp of a species-defining civil war, and the rest of the galaxy is at risk of being dragged into the conflict. Gretchen Trujillo is a mid-level diplomat, working in an unimportant part of the Colonial Union bureaucracy. But when she is called to take part in a secret mission involving representatives from every powerful faction in space, what she finds there has the chance to redefine the destinies of each or destroy them forever . . .
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83/100 Its been 10 years since the last Old Man's War novel, The End of All Things, but Scalzi drops the reader back into this universe as if it was yesterday. We're quickly brought up to speed on the tenuous relationship between the Colonial government, the alien Conclave, the Consu, and the Earth. While there is plenty of snarky humor in this book, I wouldn't label it as humorous, like Starter Villain or When The Moon Hits Your Eye, it's more ⬇️

RamsFan1963 action oriented. Scalzi writes interesting and diverse aliens, both the Consu and the Opin are unique in their alienness, but still human like in their needs. Sadly, I can see this as the end of the series, it kind of shuts the door on future stories, but if it is the end, then it's a rousing and satisfying conclusion. 5 🌟 read #Read2025 #SeriesLove2025 3d
Bklover Great review!! 3d
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This feels like a psychological attack as well as a physical one. Lying there, probably pained and voluntarily immobile, dealing with the fact that someone else's fingers are suddenly FULLY UP your nose. 😖👃🏻☝🏻😆

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It's still two weeks away, but I've pre-ordered John Scalzi's new novel, the 7th book in the Old Man's War series. I'm so happy he's returning to this series, it's one of my all time favorites. #SeriesLove2025

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Roary47
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This author is just amazingly hilarious. I got this email via a Goodreads review, and I‘m excited about this new book because he promised Brownies if we ever met. 🤣

RamsFan1963 Oh I'm definitely stacking this!! I loved the whole Old Man's War series. 2mo
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