The Last Colony (Old Man's War, #3)

by John Scalzi

“There’s a goat in your office,”

When you control communication, you can hide anything you want.”

And for the first time in my life I knew my life was more than what was directly in front of me. I learned to see the constellations, not just the stars.

Empires of conquest don’t last, Administrator Perry. They hollow out from within, from the greed of rulers and the endless appetite for war.