Series: The Human Division
by Author John Scalzi
Die letzte Einheit, Episode 7: - Der Hundekönig (2013)
CDF Lieutenant Harry Wilson is in charge of looking after the ambassador’s dog while the diplomat is conducting sensitive negotiations with an alien race. However when the dog gets eaten by a plant it’s up to Wilson to save the dog and the negotiations. I guessed before it happened that the dog w...
The Human Division #7: The Dog King (2013)
Don't you hate it when you are stuck taking care of some mucky-muck's dog?....and then it gets eaten by a giant carnivorous plant?Harry Wilson continues in his scifi version of A Series of Unfortunate Events, where he just tries to do the right thing and everything comes apart around him. Happily...
The Dog King (2013)
The B Team has been dispatched to support a diplomatic mission acting as mediators on an alien planet attempting to emerge from civil war and form a new, unified government. The war has been going on for a couple of centuries, ever since the disappearance of the last king, and the pretext for the...
Die letzte Einheit, Episode 3: - Wir brauchen nur die Köpfe (2013)
This is a review for the series of the Human Division. I have read all the 13 books in a row, this was my first time reading John Scalzi.I was at first disturbed by the series: more than 400 different races, some with very unfriendly intents toward each other, but all at about the same technologi...
Die letzte Einheit, Episode 8: - Der Klang der Rebellion (2013)
Another entry in The Human Division, and this time the focus turns away from the Clarke and her diplomatic "B Team." The stability of the Colonial Union is being challenged, and Colonial Defense forces, normally dedicated to defending the CU against alien enemies, has to put down a local rebellio...
Die letzte Einheit, Episode 5: - Die Leute von der Clarke (2013)
Scalzi is ever so nicely tying the previous chapters/episodes together into a pretty decent narrative. This one was a spy story that brought together the Captain of the Clarke & Wilson while still keeping us tied with Abumwe. The baseball storyline was genius and being a baseball fan made it ev...
The Human Division #5: Tales From the Clarke (2013)
Ooh, this one is a good installment, full of intrigue, danger, and double-crossing.Also some baseball.This little story is all the things you probably enjoyed about the Old Man's War books, in one teeny little package."“Right, but they’re not rated for this sort of power output,” Basquez said. “T...
Die letzte Einheit, Episode 11: - Eine Frage der Verhältnismäßigkeit (2013)
The crew of the diplomatic ship Clarke picks up another clue in the eleventh episode of Scalzi's new Old Man's War novel. Someone is taking old CDU vessels, those disarmed and sold for civilian use. Some think it's The Conclave. when the ship comes out of skip for a clandestine mission with the o...
Earth Below, Sky Above (2013)
Set in the same universe as Old Man's War, Scalzi returns to familiar territory. Not having read all of the previous books in this series did not effected my understand in the least. I had no trouble keeping up. These are light fun reads, written in serial form. While the ending was not a cliffha...
Die letzte Einheit, - Episode 13: Unten die Erde, oben der Himmel - (2013)
I couldn't have asked for a better climax! The Human Division wraps up with its largest chapter (more than double the size of every other of the twelve previous chapters) and it needs the extra length. Relations between the Colonial Union, Earth and the Conclave shift so abruptly that I can't ima...
Die letzte Einheit, Episode 9: - Die Beobachter (2013)
This is a review for the series of the Human Division. I have read all the 13 books in a row, this was my first time reading John Scalzi.I was at first disturbed by the series: more than 400 different races, some with very unfriendly intents toward each other, but all at about the same technologi...
The Sound of Rebellion (2013)
This is another excellent stand-alone story. It's a locked-room prisoner's dilemma thing, and it is worked out exceedingly well, story-wise.I really appreciated this story, and actually went through and read it a second time once I stopped being surprised. You should pick it up.Read if: You like ...
A Problem of Proportion (2013)
Another chapter of Johns Scalzi's «The Human Division» where the author surprises us with a plot twist after the plot twist. We get to see more of Lieutenant Harry Wilson doing his best as a tech specialist. But that's not all. This chapter contains an emotional story, something that truly paints...
Tales From the Clarke (2013)
Captain Coloma of the Clarke is on tenterhooks awaiting the results of the review board, after she did major, irreparable damage to her ship by placing it in the path of a missile intended for the aliens Ambassador Abumwe had been sent to negotiate with. In the meantime, she and her crew have bee...
We Only Need the Heads (2013)
After a lackluster episode 2 (the 2nd story in his 13 story episodic tale called The Human Division) Scalzi gets his mojo back in this one.We've got Harry Wilson as a strong supporting character but Ambassador Abumwe really steals the show in this episode (that does tie in the aforementioned epis...