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false <![CDATA[Old Man's War (Book 1)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170383915m/51964.jpg 51964 12 John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife’s grave. Then he joined the army. The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scarce—and alien races willing to fight us for them are common. So: we fight. To defend Earth, and to stake our own claim to planetary real estate. Far from Earth, the war has been going on for decades: brutal, bloody, unyielding. Earth itself is a backwater. The bulk of humanity’s resources are in the hands of the Colonial Defense Force. Everybody knows that when you reach retirement age, you can join the CDF. They don’t want young people; they want people who carry the knowledge and skills of decades of living. You’ll be taken off Earth and never allowed to return. You’ll serve two years at the front. And if you survive, you’ll be given a generous homestead stake of your own, on one of our hard-won colony planets. John Perry is taking that deal. He has only the vaguest idea what to expect. Because the actual fight, light-years from home, is far, far harder than he can imagine—and what he will become is far stranger. 50700 book 2005 Old Man's War (Book 1) total:2496|5:900|4:1124|3:392|2:59|1:21| 2496 10311 3250 492 4 10 false false Tue Apr 15 08:55:45 -0700 2008 Sat May 10 10:31:33 -0700 2008
The book has a couple of reveals,...more...]]> 4 5 false true Tue Dec 30 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Sep 01 06:58:15 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 08 16:10:58 -0700 2009 1
Our point of view is through the eyes of John Perry. We meet him on Earth, as a seventy-five year old widower living in Ohio. It's his birthday and it's time for him to report for duty. He (and h...more...]]> 2 4 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 04 14:55:28 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 05 14:42:11 -0700 2007 more...]]> 1 3 false false Sat Jan 24 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 21 06:48:16 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 24 11:45:14 -0800 2009 Starship Troopers and The Forever War, to which this book has been compared; but while the topic may be similar, it's an understatement t...more...]]> 5 2 false true Wed Nov 26 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 20 06:09:49 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 28 08:01:10 -0800 2008
This is great fiction, and great science fiction.

Read this book.

Perhaps I should explain why I call this fantasy as well as science fiction. Unlike many other readers, I deem the presence of aliens in a story as as much a si...more...]]> 3 4 false false Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Jun 04 19:32:55 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 04 19:33:55 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 2 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed May 09 23:58:29 -0700 2007 Thu May 10 20:08:27 -0700 2007
The cover quote on this one compares Scalzi t...more...]]> 4 3 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Apr 18 05:15:27 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 18 05:29:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Aug 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 22 12:26:37 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 22 13:04:08 -0700 2008 Old Man's War, on my new Kindle. And I liked it. I liked it a lot.

This particular copy of the book was distributed as part of the promotion for Tor's new website. That promotion, which must have seemed pretty risky to some of the folks in the Tor...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Aug 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 31 08:51:21 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 04 10:22:53 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Thu Jun 05 12:30:47 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 05 12:31:08 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Oct 16 21:43:47 -0700 2007 Sun Dec 09 20:52:25 -0800 2007 Old Man's War, I snaffled up a copy.

I quite enjoyed this tale of the elderly being shipped off Earth to be made young again, and used as soldiers in a seemingly never-ending galactic war. It'...more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Fri Jul 06 08:04:30 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 06 08:08:09 -0700 2007
This book reads like The Forever War-lite. It deals with many of the same themes, but in a far more...more...]]> 3 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Aug 07 13:53:29 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 07 13:56:54 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false true Sun Mar 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 17 13:22:11 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 17 13:48:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Feb 19 08:34:28 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 19 08:34:54 -0800 2009
The only way for Americans to get into space is to join the Colonial Defense Force (CDF). They guard human colonies, and go to...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Jan 10 13:21:48 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 13:21:59 -0800 2009 blog (where he recounts such things as why he can't make his publisher's deadline, one of the reasons being he has to tape bacon to his cat. Don't ask... just read the blog.). He's a fabulous writer and a great favorite of other writ...more...]]> 4 0 false true Wed Dec 10 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 16 19:01:34 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 17 15:06:11 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Apr 12 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Nov 21 14:57:07 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 21 15:09:09 -0800 2008 1 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Oct 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 13:07:34 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 19 13:07:39 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=51964