10 books for fans of Old Man's War
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Old Man's War Boxed Set I: Old Man's War, The Ghost Brigades, The Last Colony
Old Man's War #1-3 • Book 2
by John Scalzi
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Earth stays blissfully unaware while the Colonial Defense Force wages galactic war, but some truths about humanity's cosmic situation can't stay hidden forever.
★ 4.53 Goodreads (948 ratings) - 2
The Last Colony
Old Man's War • Book 3
by John Scalzi
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Colonial life on distant Huckleberry seems peaceful until John Perry discovers his new settlement is a pawn in interstellar politics. Scalzi weaponizes small-town bureaucracy against cosmic-scale conspiracies.
★ 4.11 Goodreads (73.9K ratings) - 3
The Consuming Fire
The Interdependency • Book 2
by John Scalzi
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Emperox Grayland watches the Flow that enables interstellar travel disappear, stranding entire star systems while politicians deny the coming catastrophe.
★ 4.22 Goodreads (37.6K ratings) - 4
The Last Emperox
The Interdependency • Book 3
by John Scalzi
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Star systems vanish behind the collapsing Flow while politicians and profiteers deny the science, leaving Emperox Grayland to save what she can of human civilization.
★ 4.14 Goodreads (33.4K ratings) - 5
The Collapsing Empire
The Interdependency • Book 1
by John Scalzi
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Scalzi builds a space empire dependent on interdimensional Flow streams, then watches it crumble as the physics that bind civilization start breaking down.
★ 4.13 Goodreads (60.3K ratings) - 6
The Android's Dream
The Android's Dream • Book 1
by John Scalzi
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Diplomatic relations with an alien species depend on finding a specific genetically-modified sheep before Earth faces annihilation—only Scalzi could make this work.
★ 3.99 Goodreads (24.2K ratings) - 7
The Kaiju Preservation Society
by John Scalzi
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COVID-era food delivery driver Jamie Gray accidentally lands a job protecting kaiju in an alternate dimension. Scalzi wrote this as pandemic comfort reading, and it shows in the best possible way.
★ 3.98 Goodreads (72.6K ratings) - 8
Agent to the Stars
by John Scalzi
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Benevolent aliens want to make contact but face a PR nightmare: they're hideous and smell terrible, so they hire Hollywood's hottest agent to rebrand them.
★ 3.93 Goodreads (24.1K ratings) - 9
Lock In
Lock In • Book 1
by John Scalzi
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After a pandemic causes 'lock in' syndrome in millions, society adapts with neural networks and robotic bodies. Scalzi uses this setup to explore disability, technology, and what makes us human through a murder investigation.
★ 3.92 Goodreads (72.3K ratings) - 10
When the Moon Hits Your Eye
by John Scalzi
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What starts as an absurd premise—the moon becomes cheese—becomes Scalzi's vehicle for exploring how humanity adapts to impossible circumstances with typical wit.
★ 3.78 Goodreads (18.5K ratings)