John Scalzi’s The End of All Things, set in the Old Man’s War universe, has an official release schedule! As with The Human Division, The End of All Things will publish as as series of ebook novellas from Tor Books this summer, beginning with The Life of the Mind.
Get the full schedule below, and check out cover art for each novella, featuring pastel drawings by John Harris!
The End of All Things will be published in four ebook-only episodes throughout the month of June:
- Episode 1: The Life of the Mind publishes June 9th
- Episode 2: This Hollow Union publishes June 16th
- Episode 3: Can Long Endure publishes June 23rd
- Episode 4: To Stand or Fall publishes June 30th
Each episode will be getting a new piece of original John Harris art ala The Human Division, as well. You can view the four new covers below, and check out Harris’ previous works in the Old Man’s War universe here.
The complete hardcover edition of The End of All Things will be available August 11th from Tor Books. From the jacket copy:
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 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 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.
