It’s always testament to the quality of a writer when they can orient a reader half way through without them feeling like they’re missing out. The book is well plotted, written and paced, but it was something else that really sold me on it. Out-gunned, out-‘manned’ and undermined by shadowy agent provocateurs, THD is very much a book about stoically making the best of a terrible situation. This sequel to Zoe’s Tale concerns the new diplomatic priorities of the Colonial Union as they try and stabilise their fractured alliance with Earth and stay on the right side of the alien federation known as The Conclave. The Human Division, 5th in his Old Man’s War series detailing the fate of the Colonial Union and it’s increasingly tenuous relationship with the Earth, is actually the first I’ve read. John Scalzi is a household name as character-driven sci-fi goes.
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