The Human Division
- 333
- Pages
- about 6 h
- Reading time
Affiliate link: buying through it supports BookRank at no extra cost to you.
Our view
“The Human Division” works best taken as a run of linked episodes rather than a single novel. Harry Wilson and a team of second-string diplomats are handed the assignments nobody else wants, and Scalzi’s humour carries them through. The serial origins show: some readers find the repeated recaps awkward once the instalments are bound together. A newcomer to the “Old Man’s War” universe can follow it, though it is the fifth book set there.
The view of the BookRank editors, written from readers’ ratings and comments. It does not affect the score or the book’s place in a ranking.
About the book
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 book is written multiperspectively as a subjective third-person narrative with Harry Wilson, who first appeared in Old Man's War as a friend of John Perry and who also played a prominent role in The Ghost Brigades, being the main point of view character. In contrast to the previous novels, it does not have a continuous plot line, but consists of several more or less independent episodes.
Reading order · Old Man's War
Full order & progress →
Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.0 across 462 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 76% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 7.9 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.9 | 31 | 7% |
| Hardcover | 8.0 | 431 | 93% |
Frequently asked
How long is The Human Division?
It has 333 pages — shorter than 74% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
In this book
Themes this book shares with others — each leads to the best books on it.
If you liked this
The same shelf — Science fiction — and a score of 7.9, the closest to this book.
