The Android's Dream

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<p>From New York Times bestseller and Hugo Award-winner John Scalzi, a wild-and-woolly caper novel of interstellar diplomacy<br><br>A human diplomat creates an interstellar incident when he kills an alien diplomat in a most . . . unusual . . . way. To avoid war, Earth's government must find an equally unusual object: a type of sheep ("The Android's Dream"), used in the alien race's coronation ceremony.<br><br>To find the sheep, the government turns to Harry Creek, ex-cop, war hero and hacker extraordinare, who, with the help of a childhood friend turned artificial intelligence, scours the earth looking for the rare creature. <br>But there are others with plans for the sheep as well. Mercenaries employed by the military. Adherents of a secret religion based on the writings of a 21st century SF author. And alien races, eager to start a revolution on their home world and a war on Earth.<br><br>To keep our planet from being enslaved, Harry will have to pull off a grand diplomatic coup, a gambit that will take him from the halls of power to the lava-strewn battlefields of alien worlds. There's only one chance to get it right, to save the life of the sheep—and to protect the future of humanity.<br><br><br>Other Tor Books<br>The Android’s Dream<br>Agent to the Stars<br>Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded<br>Fuzzy Nation<br>Redshirts<br><br>1. Lock In<br>2. Head On<br><br>The Interdepency Sequence<br>1. The Collapsing Empire<br>2. The Consuming Fire<br><br>Old Man's War Series<br>1. Old Man’s War<br>2. The Ghost Brigades<br>3. The Last Colony<br>4. Zoe’s Tale<br>5. The Human Division<br>6. The End of All Things<br><br>At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.</p>