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The military SF sequel to his extraordinary Old Man's War, John Scalzi's The Ghost Brigades is the second in The Old Man's War series. Who can you trust, if you can't trust yourself? Three hostile alien races have united against humanity, determined to halt our expansion into space. The...

Hard-core military science fiction at its very best, John Scalzi's The Last Colony is the third in The Old Man's War series. They must save themselves – or die trying. John Perry was living peacefully on one of humanity's colonies – until he and his wife were offered an opportunity these...

1378. Evaso dalla prigione in cui il re d'Aragona lo aveva fatto rinchiudere, Eymerich raggiunge Roma, dove papa Gregorio XI sta morendo, e si trova alle prese con un fantasma che gli è identico. In un'epoca più prossima alla nostra, ma futura, la repubblica di Catalogna è l'unico Stato europeo che si è mantenuto neutrale in un conflitto mondiale devastante. Vi trova rifugio lo scienziato Marcus Frullifer, portatore di teorie capaci di sconvolgere la fisica e la nozione di tempo. In un futuro lontanissimo, l'umanità si sta evolvendo in qualcosa d'altro.

In the future, Earth is ruled by women and many of the men have fled to other planets. Ferdinand is a boy on a spaceship headed to Venus where the men are said to be plentiful. He's with his older sister, Evelyn, who decided to leave Earth in search of a husband. After Ferdinand stumbles on a stowaway named Butt Lee Brown, a battle of the sexes ensues. Satire and humor abound in this tale from William Tenn.