The Gentle Art of Cracking Heads (2 April).The episode titles with the release dates in 2013 are as follows: The book was published at e-book retailers between 15 January and 9 April 2013 as digital serials with thirteen episodes. Īs the story progresses, it deals with how humanity fares in a universe filled with other sentient races and without a growing military force to clash with them. It will take diplomatic finesse and political cunning: the 'B-Team' advised by Lieutenant Harry Wilson. For a shaken and betrayed Earth, the choice is not obvious or easy.Īgainst such possibilities, managing the survival of the Colonial Union will not be easy, either. They have invited the people of Earth to join them. Other alien races have come on the scene and formed a new alliance against the Colonial Union called the Conclave. For generations the CU had defended humanity against hostile aliens, deliberately keeping Earth an ignorant backwater and a source of military recruits. The people of Earth now know that the human Colonial Union (CU) has kept them ignorant of the dangerous universe around them. Plot synopsis įollowing the events of The Last Colony, John Scalzi tells the story of the fight to maintain the unity of the human race.

The Human Division is a science fiction novel by American writer John Scalzi, the fifth book set in the Old Man's War universe.

The human division by john scalzi