false 88071 7 "Let me tell you of the worlds I've left behind..." John Perry, the hero of John Scalzi's Hugo-nominated debut novel, Old Man's War, has found peace in a violent universe, living quietly with his wife and daughter on one of humanity's many colonies. It's a good life, yet there's something...missing. When John and Jane are asked to lead a new colony world, he jumps at the chance to explore the universe once more. But Perry quickly finds out that nothing is what it seems. He and his new colony are pawns in an interstellar game of diplomacy and war between humanity's Colonial Union and a new, seemingly unstoppable alien alliance that has ordered an end to all human colonization. As this grand gambit rages above, on the ground Perry struggles to keep his colonists alive in the face of threats both alien and familiar, on a planet that keeps its own fatal secrets. For the survival of his colony and his family, Perry must unravel the web of lies, half-truths, and deception spun around him and uncover the shocking true purpose of his colony - and fight to prevent a war that not only threatens to engulf his new home, but promises the destruction of the Colonial Union. There are few options, and no margin for error, for Perry to keep his colony from becoming the last colony of the human race. 3108039 book 17 4 2007 The Last Colony total:1109|5:248|4:562|3:262|2:32|1:5| 1109 4343 1483 131 3 5 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 20 17:48:12 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 15 09:51:05 -0700 2008
Regular readers will know that I've found myself in a special situation this month, because of accidentally ge...more...]]> 4 5 false false Mon Oct 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 05 16:33:40 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 06 17:11:30 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 2 false false Mon Jun 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat May 31 11:26:56 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 04 18:03:23 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat May 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun May 11 08:19:29 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 24 07:12:46 -0700 2008 The Last Colony is the third book set in the universe created in Old Man's War and expanded on my Ghost Brigades. I think it's best read after reading the other two, although it's not required. You'll get enough background to follow the story, although it's also enough information to spoil some of...more...]]> 3 1 false false Thu May 08 11:04:25 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 20 20:47:07 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Jun 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 21 09:25:13 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 21 13:25:10 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jan 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 08:10:09 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 08:21:46 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 15:52:40 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 16:12:14 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Wed Jun 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 04:01:50 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 17 04:07:00 -0700 2009
I've picked this up a few times and read a few pages... on the plus side, the prose has improved since Ghost Brigades. On the minus, I am finding the universe of these linked novels getting less interesting, the conflict of the protagonists with...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Apr 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 24 12:16:10 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 24 12:32:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 18 05:15:31 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 18 10:27:20 -0700 2009 The Ghost Brigades, falling back to four stars for The Last Colony, the final book in this powerful series, feels like a demotion, and in some ways it is, since the purpose of this book is to reunite the almost-lovers John and Jane from book one of the series, Old ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon May 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 24 18:30:44 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 18:30:44 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false true Wed Jan 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Dec 31 06:43:04 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 08 07:02:59 -0800 2009
The third novel in the "Old Man's War" series (and the end note claims it's the final novel; however, considering the afterward is followed by an advertisement for the forth novel in the series, it's not the last... ;-) ). I liked this one very mu...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jul 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 08 18:26:16 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 08 18:30:50 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 2 false false Sat Jun 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 04:35:30 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 21 05:09:07 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Feb 24 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 21 23:19:04 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 10:17:59 -0800 2009 1 Zoe's Tale to my daughter. Emmalee is getting old enough that I would love to get her reading a little scifi, and Zoe's Tale sounds like the perfect book to start her down that path (scifi, written for a youth...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jan 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 16 19:46:20 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 10 21:44:15 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false true Tue Dec 09 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 10 15:22:17 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 10 15:28:10 -0800 2008
The Colonial Union vs. Conclave plan was so dumb I couldn't get my head around it and the book offered no explanation that made it sit right with me.

The characters were tough to swa...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 01 15:26:48 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 01 15:38:04 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Apr 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 09 18:48:18 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 11 10:23:57 -0700 2009 more...]]>