The End of All Things

Old Man's War, Book 6

By: John Scalzi

Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert, William Dufris, John Scalzi

Hugo Award-winning author John Scalzi returns to his best-selling Old Man's War universe with The End of All Things, the direct sequel to 2013's The Human Division.

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 he works with race against the clock to discover who is behind attacks on the Union and on alien races, to seek peace with a suspicious, angry Earth, and to keep humanity's union intact...or else risk oblivion and extinction - and the end of all things.

©2015 John Scalzi (P)2015 Audible, Inc.

Critic reviews

"Tavia Gilbert and William Dufris are disarmingly genial as they trade off narrating chapters. Gilbert, in particular, manages to convey a bird-like alien perfectly in her section, and Dufris is fully believable even as a disembodied brain in control of a spaceship." ( AudioFile)

the struggle

I liked the whole thing it was captivating , it was also very exciting and full of action.

Fun listen

Fun story. Not as deep or moving as earlier books on this series but still a lot of fun.

Good but a Bit Fragmented

I like the story though I found it a bit anti-climactic after going through 5 books. I liked the 1st part best about the brain in the box. I struggled with multiple narrators doing the same characters but I assume it was released in parts.

Great continuation

Any additional comments?

John Scalzi is one of the best authors out there. His work is creative and new, and his Old Man War Universe is very well done. Performance was very well done, and the use of a male and female voice for the first person narratives worked well in my opinion.

Mostly awesome

Dufris does an amazing job as always. But someone was asleep in the editing room for Gilbert. She makes all of the soldiers sound like they have a stick up their butt. Even the usually laid back Harry Wilson. It's very jarring. At one point she even says condemnation instead of commendation.