Waiting on Wednesday 11/12/14
“Waiting On Wednesday” is a weekly meme hosted by Breaking the Spine that lets us feature upcoming releases that we can’t wait to get our hands on!
Mogsy’s Pick:
The End of All Things by John Scalzi: August 11, 2015 (Tor)
Since it’s Sci-Fi Month and I really liked Tammy’s (from Books, Bones & Buffy) idea of only featuring upcoming science-fiction titles in WoWs in November, I was struck by the inspiration to try that too! Let’s see how that goes, though there’s always a bunch of science-fiction releases on my radar that I’m looking forward to. Anything by Scalzi, for example, immediately goes into my to-read list. And I couldn’t be more excited to discover this direct sequel to his 2013 serialized novel The Human Division, and it is technically the sixth book of the Old Man’s War sequence. Have I mentioned how much I love this series? I have? Many times? Well, I do!
“Hugo-award winning author, John Scalzi returns to his best-selling Old Man’s War universe with 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 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 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 keep humanity’s union intact…or else risk oblivion, and extinction—and the end of all things.”
The BiblioSanctum 
OOh nice! Totally new to me but hope you love it!
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Oh, this makes me excited, too! I hadn’t heard of this book. You invariably give me books to add to my list!
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Cool. This one caught my eye, but I have some catching up to do on the Old Man’s War saga first.
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I love the idea of featuring a sci-fi pick for all your WoW’s in November. I must remember that for next year 🙂 I LOVE sci-fi but never seem to read enough books in the genre as I’d like…I’ve heard of Scalzi but haven’t read anything by him yet – I need to fix that, soon. I hope this one ^^ is even better than the rest of the series for you! Happy reading! x
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When I saw your remark about grabbing off the shelves whatever Scalzi writes, I smiled, because that’s exactly how I feel about his books 🙂
The OMW series is both entertaining and deep and I’ve enjoyed the journey quite a lot. Now that it’s been optioned for a tv series, I’m sure it will gather an even wider audience, and I’m glad because it deserves to!
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I’ve never read a novel by Scalzi. *hides* Sounds like the Earthlings are really stupid in this book. What’s to stop the aliens from attacking them?
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I haven’t even heard of this author before! Thanks so much for bringing this to my attention! It looks awesome! 🙂
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Not once have I read Scalzi. Not once. I love looking through comments for WoW though.
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One of my work shifts this week was on the circulation desk (I work in a library) and a patron actually recommended the Old Man’s War series to me! I told him that he should read Lock In. Seems like I’ve potentially got another series on my reading list!
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