John Scalzi, The Shattering Peace with Rainy Day Books

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Mon Sep 22 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

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Unity Temple on the Plaza | Kansas City, MO

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Enjoy an evening with New York Times bestselling author John Scalzi in Kansas City.
About this Event

Join Rainy Day Books at Unity Temple to celebrate the newest installment in the Old Man's War series, The Shattering Peace, with acclaimed author John Scalzi!


This event takes place in Unity Temple's Charles Fillmore Chapel and includes a talk from John and an opportunity to get your book signed and personalized.


The Book

The Shattering Peace

After a decade, acclaimed science fiction master John Scalzi returns to the galaxy of the Old Man's War series with the long awaited seventh book, The Shattering Peace.

THE PEACE IS SHATTERING

For a decade, peace has reigned in interstellar space. A tripartite agreement between the Colonial Union, the Earth, and the alien Conclave has kept the forces of war at bay, even when some would have preferred to return to the fighting and struggle of former times. For now, more sensible heads have prevailed – and have even championed unity.

But now, there is a new force that threatens the hard-maintained 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 between Consu factions... but nothing the Consu ever do is just about them. The Colonial Union, the Earth and the Conclave have been unwillingly dragged into the conflict, in the most surprising of ways.

Gretchen Trujillo is a mid-level diplomat, working in an unimportant part of the Colonial 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 and aliens alike... or destroy them forever.


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 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. His New York Times bestsellers include The Last Colony, Fuzzy Nation, Redshirts (which won the Hugo Award for Best Novel), The Last Emperox, The Kaiju Preservation Society, and Starter Villain. Material from his blog, Whatever, has earned him two other Hugo Awards. He lives in Ohio with his wife and daughter.


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Unity Temple on the Plaza, 707 West 47th Street, Kansas City, United States

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