Book guide
The Shattering Peace
A decade of interstellar peace cracks when a bureaucrat joins a secret mission that could save—or erase—humanity and its allies.
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About The Shattering Peace
A decade of uneasy peace has held the stars together — until the galaxy’s most powerful species threatens to tear it apart. Gretchen Trujillo expected her career in the Colonial Union’s State Department to remain quiet, bureaucratic, and safely unremarkable. Instead, she is pulled into a mission so secret that its failure could collapse the fragile balance between Earth, the Colonial Union, and the alien Conclave. A hidden colony has vanished, the inscrutable Consu are edging toward civil war, and the fate of countless worlds may rest on one diplomat’s ability to outthink beings who see humanity as little more than a curiosity. Returning to the beloved universe of Old Man’s War, John Scalzi delivers a fast, sharp, and witty space opera of diplomacy, danger, and impossible choices — where peace may be the most fragile weapon of all.
Reading signals
- Spice
- None
- Darkness
- Balanced
- Pacing
- Fast
Series
Old Man's War · Book 7 of 7
Content warnings
- gun violence
- violence
- xenophobia
- medical content
- kidnapping
- war
- death
- blood
- vomit
- grief
- religious bigotry
- colonisation
- injury detail
- cursing
- deportation
- gore
