Old Man's War
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| Rating | : | 4.68 (820 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B000X00DAO |
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| Number of Pages | : | 136 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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So: we fight. You'll serve two years at the front. First he visited his wife's grave. You'll be taken off Earth and never allowed to return. John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. Then he joined the army.The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. They don't want young people; they want people who carry the knowledge and skills of decades of living. He has only the vaguest idea what to expect. Because the actual fight, light-years from home, is far, far harder than he can imagineand what he will become is far stranger.Old Man's War Series #1 Old Man’s War #2 The Ghost Brigades #3 The Last Colony #4 Zoe’s Tale #5 The Human Division #6 The End of All Things Short fiction: “After the Coup”Other Tor BooksThe Android’s DreamAgent to the StarsYour Hate Mail Will Be GradedFuzzy NationRedshirtsLock InThe Collapsing Empire (forthcoming). The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scarceand alien races willing to fight us for them are common. To defend Earth, and to stake
Fun space opera, the series should be good. DaveF Although space opera "Old Man's War" is not ground-breaking science fiction, I never-the-less thoroughly enjoyed the story. Author John Scalzi moves the story along at a nice clip, the main characters are interesting, and there's enough action to keep things from bogging down. Its a fairly quick read, and I will probably read the sequels at some point. The negatives are small: its a somewhat fa. Nilmar said A different perspective on the future of warfare. I don't want to spoil this for you so i'm NOT going to give many details here. This is a somewhat different take on the future of war in space. Very reminiscent of Heinlein's "Starship Troopers" and Joe Haldeman's "The Forever War". The premise is the same, there aren't very many habitable worlds available and there are other races who want the same worlds that humanity does. Which means that t. Elody K said I would recommend this book. This was a really interesting concept. If you get to 75 you can go to intergalactic war and get an entirely new body to fight in. I'm not sure most 75 year old minds would really be able to do some of the things that they require but then again maybe there's nothing to lose so why not? It's a short book, easy, fun read and I'm going to read the sequel - just to see what happens next.
From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. . Though a lot of SF writers are more or less efficiently continuing the tradition of Robert A. The story obviously resembles such novels as Starship Trooper and Time Enough for Love, but Scalzi is not just recycling classic Heinlein. The novel's tone is right on target, too—sentimentality balanced by hardheaded calculation, know-it-all smugness moderated by innocent wonder. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. This virtuoso debut pays tribute to SF's past while showing that well-worn tropes still can have real zip when they're approached with ingenuity. He's working out new twists, variations that startle even as they satisfy. Seventy-five-year-old John Perry joins the Colonial Defense Force because he has nothing to keep him on