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)

Great new Scalzi book

I was thrown by the introduction at first. I was jogging to the audio version and was initially concerned that I had started out of sequence with the wrong version of "The Life of the Mind." Don't worry. The book flows as one story from 4 different perspectives and the alternate version of "Mind" is at the end of the complete story. I very much enjoyed this return to the Colonial Union. Hopefully Scalzi will one day let us readers know what happens to Lt. Heather Lee, Harry Wilson and the rest of his characters.

great series

this was a fantastic series. funny well written and great speakers. loved all the additional content at the end too.

A Good Ending

I liked this book a lot, though at times it felt a little slow. I loved that Scalzi uses first person.

I thought the performances were good individually, but it really bugs me when character, race or planet names aren't consistently pronounced between narrators.

It's a satisfying end to the Old Man's War series, but not my favorite Scalzi book due to lack of fart humor.

Filling in the blanks.

This does a good job of filling things in. if you've read everything else in the "Old man's war" universe, read this.

Overall

I have thoroughly enjoyed this relatively short series of books encompassing "Old Man's War". The one notable exception being Zoe's Book (not so much)... though I did like the last quarter of Zoe's Tale.

I will add this series to my "Reread" list.

Cheers!