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No wonder LJ's editorial staff were atwitter over Hugo Award nominee Scalzi's (Redshirts) latest novel—it kicks ass! It's hard to sum up pithily the background where Earth has finally cut off supplying soldiers and colonists to the Colonial Union (CU). As the CU struggles to get Earth back into the fold, it also needs to avoid conflict with any of the other 600 races in the universe at all costs; diplomacy is the new gold standard. Though each can be read independently, chapters function as a tapestry of related missions with fast plot movement and political intrigue joined with "hard" sf. Characters overl...Log In or Sign Up to Read More