It’s official. John Scalzi is currently working on Zoe’s Tale, the fourth book that will be set in the “Old Man’s War” universe. Zoe is the adopted daughter of John Perry and Jane Sagan, the protagonists in the previous three books “Old Man’s War”, “The Ghost Brigades”, and “The Last Colony”.

I’m pleasantly surprised that he has gotten back to this universe so soon. In the acknowledgments at the end of “The Last Colony” (which was published this year) he states:

With this book we’ve reached the end of our journeys with John Perry and Jane Sagan. I like to think they go on. But they go on without us. It’s possible I’ll return one day to this universe, to explore other corners of it, and to see how it has changed through the events of this book. For the moment, however, I’m stepping back, to explore other places and people. It hope you don’t mind.

Because of that quote I expected it to be several more years before anymore came out.