The end of all things / John Scalzi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scalzi, John, 1969-

Contributor:

Classes of 1883 and 1884 Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human-alien encounters--Fiction.

Human-alien encounters.

Soldiers--Fiction.

Soldiers.

Genre:

Fiction.

Science fiction.

Physical Description:

380 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Tom Doherty Associates Book, 2015.

Summary:

"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 keep humanity's union intact ... or else risk oblivion, and extinction--and the end of all things"-- provided by publisher.

Contents:

The life of the mind

This hollow union

Can long endure

To stand or fall

An alternate "The life of the mind."

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Classes of 1883 and 1884 Fund.

ISBN:

9780765376077

0765376075

OCLC:

908146173

Publisher Number:

99966741567