The Human DivisionHard core science fiction at its very best, John Scalzi's The Human Division is the fifth in The Old Man's War series. Lieutenant Harry Wilson has an impossible mission. He must help preserve the union of humanity's colonies, in the wake of a terrible revelation. For years the Colonial Union has protected its citizens from the dangerous universe around them. But the people of Earth now know the ugly truth. The Union deliberately kept Earth as an

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outstanding law student Chloe Larson wakes from a terrible nightmare

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half-English Matthieu Carrey finds himself in the ranks of Napoleon's five hundred thousand strong army

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