The Shattering Peace
18 September 2025Synopsis
Peace is an illusion . . .
After a decade, acclaimed Hugo Award winner and science fiction master John Scalzi returns to the Old Man's 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, the 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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18 September 2025
9781529082937Reviews
John Scalzi writes science fiction that is fun, intelligent and irreverent . . . I haven’t enjoyed science fiction this much in yearsChristopher Paolini, author of Eragon, on the Old Man’s War series
Old Man’s War is classic SF seen from a modern perspective – a fast-paced tour of a daunting, hostile universeRobert Charles Wilson, author of Spin, on Old Man’s War
I enjoyed Old Man’s War immensely. A space war story with fast action, vivid characters, moral complexity and cool speculative physics, set in a future you almost want to live in, and a universe you sincerely hope you don’t live in alreadyKen MacLeod, author of the Lightspeed Trilogy, on Old Man’s War
I can honestly say I can’t think of another book that ever made me laugh this much. EverPatrick Rothfuss, New York Times bestselling author of The Name of the Wind, on Redshirts
