Each ticket ($30 +fees) includes a seat at the author&rsquo\;s talk\, a copy of \;The Shattering Pea ce\, and a donation to the Cuyahoga County Public Library Foundation. \;
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About the author:
John Scalzi is one of the most popular science fiction authors of his generation. His debut\, \;Old Man's War\, won him the Jo hn W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. His \;New York Times \;bestsellers include \;The Last Colony\, Fuzzy Nat ion\, Redshirts \;(which won the Hugo Award for Best Nov el)\, \;The Last Emperox\, \;The Kaiju Preservation S ociety\, \;and \;Starter Villain. Material from his blog\, Whatever\, has earned him two other Hugo Awards. He lives in Ohio w ith his wife and daughter.
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In The Shattering Pea
ce\, for a decade\, peace has reigned in interstellar space.
A tripartite agreement between the Colonial Union\, the Earth\, and the a
lien Conclave has kept the forces of war at bay\, even when some would hav
e preferred to return to the fighting and struggle of former times. For no
w\, more sensible heads have prevailed &ndash\; and have even championed u
nity.
But now\, there is a new force that threatens the hard-maint ained peace: The Consu\, the most advanced intelligent species humans have ever met\, are on the cusp of a species-defining civil war. This war is b etween Consu factions... but nothing the Consu ever do is just about them. The Colonial Union\, the Earth and the Conclave have been unwillingly dra gged into the conflict\, in the most surprising of ways.
\nGretchen Trujillo is a mid-level diplomat\, working in an unimportant part of the C olonial Union bureaucracy. But when she is called to take part in a secret mission involving representatives from every powerful faction in space\, what she finds there has the chance to redefine the destinies of humans an d aliens alike... or destroy them forever.
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