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The End of All Things

John Scalzi

March 2023
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The final book in John Scalzi's Old Man's War series, following aging soldiers in an intergalactic conflict.

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“It’s easier to be the aspirational leader when the thing you’re building doesn’t exist. But now it exists, and you’re not aspirational anymore. Now you’re just the chief bureaucrat. Bureaucrats don’t inspire awe.”

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“You have no sense of adventure.” “I do have a sense of adventure,” I said. “It’s overawed by my sense of self-preservation.”