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The End of All Things
- Old Man's War, Book 6
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert, William Dufris, John Scalzi
- Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
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Summary
Hugo Award-winning author John Scalzi returns to his best-selling Old Man's War universe with The End of All Things, 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 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 to keep humanity's union intact...or else risk oblivion and extinction - and the end of all things.
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- C. Windermere Stoke
- 21-11-20
Why though
I prefer this author’s one-off books. Yet I listen to his series books hoping they’ll be as good. No. Waste of my audiobook listening time. Oh well. I’m not sure why Scalzi can’t seem to create good characters in his series books, when the characters in his one-offs are terrific.
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- Hello Hello
- 27-06-18
author seemed to have lost interest
The inventiveness of the first 2 books has now long since gone, and the author seems far more concerned now in wacking the listener over the head with his political opinions, (which are truly crowbared into the book) rather than builing an interesting story arc.
All the characters are also the same, regardless of gender or species, just being vehicles for the author's opinions. An author interested in the world he had created would surely not have done that? And the loss if a meaningful storyline makes the relentless 'he said' 'she said' ever more grating
That sameness across the characters is sarcasm and snideness, making it hard to become invested in the primary characters.
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- ian woodard
- 10-09-16
tedious writing and at times laughable
its a terrible world were I am aloud voice this personal attack but i felt the author has a huge ego and little talent. I do commend his commitment, and condemn his piers, publishers and press agents. Hollywood needs to do nothing to dumb this down to a movie script. painful.
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- Harry Allen
- 29-12-21
Boring
Seems like the writer just lost interest and just pumped out 3 unnecessary novels of this series for money. The ending to book 3 would have been perfect. This book is just a collection of utterly dull short stories which should have never been released.
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- adele
- 10-12-15
Pity
I could not finish the book. after part one there was no one I cared for or had sympathy for. I felt like I. .. the reader... had been written out of the book. .I really love all the author s books and had lots of fun working through his amazing talent. This book was thus a tremendous disappointment.
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- Annika
- 02-12-15
Good, but not the best of this series
I love the Old Man's War series and have read most of them twice. This one was a bit bland compared to the rest, though it was also good, but it may also be that I've just read too much of this series. It seemed to cover a lot from some older books under another angle. The most interesting part was the brain in a box part.
One thing that tends to stick out is that in many cases the the characters seem to meld together or act alike. It is not so much what they do, but how they get to their conclusions. Also the tempo how people react, seems superfast compared to real life people, but this may also be the "fault" of the reader. At the same time who would like to listen to a book where you have to wait for next sentence for several seconds. So after all it was a good listen and I'll be waiting for the next one.
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- david
- 15-12-20
ok
still good to hear story's from the other charters but it didn't really work for me
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- Guy Chapman
- 26-09-17
Vintage Scalzi
I am giving the narration five stars but the book was so compelling I finished almost all of it on my Kindle. The ending is a bit trite, but I can forgive that because the narrative and characterisation are so good throughout.
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- I.H. Schots
- 04-07-23
To finish up the saga
Performance: Changing narrator after a few chapters is incredibly jarring. A narrator sets the tone of a book, makes or breaks the audiobook. I'd rather have a new book started with a new narrator than a few chapters in. In this case we went from William Dufris to Tavia Gilbert so the contrast is stark. Not that Tavia Gilbert is a bad narrator but she is a very different one.
Story: it finishes the saga up and when you've come this far you will want to listen to the conclusion. The story is short and the audiobook has been padded with alternate story lines making it seem longer than it really is.
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- P Quirk
- 10-06-23
Brings the series to a close
As others have noted, this is a sequence of four interlinked stories told from different perspectives. They do bring the series to an end. I understood but didn’t enjoy the change of reader for two of the stories so gave only 4 stars for performance.
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