The larger narrative deals with the aftermath of THE LAST COLONY ( EBR Review) and ZOE’S TALE ( Amazon) which tells the same basic story from a different perspective). This was the intention to begin with and the challenge. The book, despite being a series of short stories pulled together tells a larger tale over the course of the novel. So, I’m gonna review it (spoiler alert, I liked it), but I wish I could see a review of someone who come into it cold, never having read Scalzi before and reading each short story a week at a time in pieces. I like the series, I know the characters and feel of it already. What I’m saying is, this book was designed for someone like me. Also, I’m a fan of Scalzi’s OLD MAN’S WAR ( Amazon) universe having read each book in the series at least once. I can only speak about THE HUMAN DIVISION as a whole, because that’s how I read it. You could alternatively wait until mid-May to buy the book in hardcover and get all the short stories put together and in chronological order (that’s what I did). You could pay to read that particular piece of the story and enjoy each story on its own merits, or you could pay a fee up front to receive each short story as they were released each week. The thing is, the book was released in two separate ways and written as a kind of experiment in publishing.įor the first four months of the year Tor released one short story a week in a serial format from Scazli based in his best selling Old Man’s War universe. It was fun and fast-paced, and like most of Scalzi’s writing it was filling with that humor, action and suspense that makes him so darn readable to many people out there. I recently got the book in the mail and read through it in a few days. In some ways I really wish we could do two reviews of THE HUMAN DIVISION by John Scalzi ( Amazon).

The Human Division by John Scalzi