It will take diplomatic finesse, political cunning…and a brilliant “B Team,” centered on the resourceful Lieutenant Harry Wilson, that can be deployed to deal with the unpredictable and unexpected things the universe throws at you when you’re struggling to preserve the unity of the human race.īeing published online from January to April 2013 as a three-month digital serial, The Human Division will appear as a full-length novel of the Old Man’s War universe, plus-for the first time in print-the first tale of Lieutenant Harry Wilson, and a coda that wasn’t part of the digital serialization.

For a shaken and betrayed Earth, the choice isn't obvious or easy.Īgainst such possibilities, managing the survival of the Colonial Union won’t be easy, either. And they’ve invited the people of Earth to join them. Other alien races have come on the scene and formed a new alliance-an alliance against the Colonial Union. For generations the CU had defended humanity against hostile aliens, deliberately keeping Earth an ignorant backwater and a source of military recruits. The Human Division Everything you need to know about John Scalzi’s The Human Division, the latest in the Old Man’s War series, including news and a read-along of the individual episodes as. The people of Earth now know that the human Colonial Union has kept them ignorant of the dangerous universe around them. Following the events of The Last Colony, John Scalzi tells the story of the fight to maintain the unity of the human race. Following the events of The Last Colony, John Scalzi tells the story of the fight to maintain the unity of the human race.

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