The Last Colony
by John Scalzi
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Read in May, 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 the plot twists in the previous two books.
This volume isn't the kind of millitary story told in the first two books. Instead, it focuses more on family, really. While the...more
This volume isn't the kind of millitary story told in the first two books. Instead, it focuses more on family, really. While the...more
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Read in June, 2008
WOW! This is the best Scalzi yet! Following in the pattern of the previous CU stories, he serves up a delicious plot (you spend the entire book trying figure out what is really going on)and a very satisfying ending (I think there may be more of these coming). Zoe's character is developing and bodes well for the sequel, Zoe's Tale, which is a retelling of this story from her first person perspective. If you were wondering what is involved in starting a new colony on an unihabited planet there ...more
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Read in June, 2008
More kick-ass adventure science fiction from Scalzi, a Campbell Award winner. This Hugo finalist takes John Perry and Jane Sagan along with their adopted teenage daughter, Zoe, from the planet Huckleberry to lead a new colony, Roanoke. Just the name of the colony foreshadows that it, like its North American predecessor is doomed to disappear. Politics, interplanetary animosity, and plots within plots are met with intelligence and grace by John, Jane, and Zoe. This is the third, and appears to be...more
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Read in July, 2007
This just went down easy, like one of those umbrella drinks.
I've really enjoyed this whole series, which is very much in the Heinlein vein but without the creepiness.
This third and supposedly final episode reminds me a bit of Heinlein's Tunnel in the Sky (one of the juveniles and a favorite of mine when I was too young to notice the outdated gender roles and all). i.e. people stranded on an unfamiliar planet with strange wildlife.
I thought the feisty precocious teenage girl was a cliche, ...more
I've really enjoyed this whole series, which is very much in the Heinlein vein but without the creepiness.
This third and supposedly final episode reminds me a bit of Heinlein's Tunnel in the Sky (one of the juveniles and a favorite of mine when I was too young to notice the outdated gender roles and all). i.e. people stranded on an unfamiliar planet with strange wildlife.
I thought the feisty precocious teenage girl was a cliche, ...more
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Read in March, 2008
recommends it for:
SF Fans, Military SF fans
Another terrific book by John Scalzi. He seems uninterested in re-writing the same story over and over again, but his new story always satisfy. The story talkes place in the same universe as his Old Man's War and Ghost Brigades and includes many of the same characters, but it tells a very different tale than the others, this time concentrating on a more civilian sort of setting. Scalzi's pacing is excellent and fast as usual, his sense of timing and surprise continue to delight. I'...more
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Read in July, 2007
Four stars for ending the trilogy with style, but I have to be honest enough to note that this wasn't operating at the same level as Old Man's War and The Ghost Brigades. Nobody hits it out of the park on every swing, and if you've read the first two, you'll enjoy the hell out of the third, even if it's a little scattered and implausible.
Yes, I invoked plausibility as a complaint against the third novel in a series that includes FTL travel, space wars, alien races with identifiably human emo...more
Yes, I invoked plausibility as a complaint against the third novel in a series that includes FTL travel, space wars, alien races with identifiably human emo...more
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Read in May, 2008
I'm not the first one to say so, but Scalzi reads like Heinlein... without the cuckoo-ness. Only 80 pages in so far, but it's been a delight, particularly after the more formulaic RCN series from David Drake.
NB: Finished it yesterday. It has a definite Orson Scot Card feel to it along with the aforementioned Heinleinisms, like a mix of Speaker for the Dead and Starship Troopers, the Unwritten Sequel. Can't say it blew me off my seat like the early Ender books, but it's better than the later ...more
NB: Finished it yesterday. It has a definite Orson Scot Card feel to it along with the aforementioned Heinleinisms, like a mix of Speaker for the Dead and Starship Troopers, the Unwritten Sequel. Can't say it blew me off my seat like the early Ender books, but it's better than the later ...more
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The third entry in a trilogy about an old man given a new, enhanced body to fight in some galactic wars, this one finds him "retired" and "gone back to normal human," but recruited to be the leader for a new colony. Things are not as they seem, however, as the political machinations continue to pile up. Scalzi is a very good writer and while this one isn't as good as the first two ("Old Man's War" and "Ghost Brigade"), it's still a solid sci-fi read. Start
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Good sci-fi space political drama. Somewhere between 3 and 4 stars. Better than Ghost Brigades and Old Man's War, the books before, but they were more sci-fi military stories (in the style of Starship Troopers), although Ghost Brigades started introducing the political st
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Read in April, 2008
recommends it for:
everyone who read Old Man's War.
An excellent conclusion to the Old Man's War trilogy.
It's not sci-fi that can be compared to the Heinlein's of history, but Scalzi is just getting started in the grand scheme of things. Based on this one, I think we're starting to see him grow into his oeuvre and really start turning out some brilliant sci-fi.
It's not sci-fi that can be compared to the Heinlein's of history, but Scalzi is just getting started in the grand scheme of things. Based on this one, I think we're starting to see him grow into his oeuvre and really start turning out some brilliant sci-fi.
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Read in April, 2008
Recently read this and The Ghost Brigades back-to-back. Scalzi addresses some of the more distressing aspects of the Colonial Union (the monopoly on technology, the information blackout around Earth, and the stranglehold on information about alien species), and still tells a heck of a fun story.
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After reading the two previous books in this series and liking them, this one was not a disappointment. My favorite of the three would be Old Man's War but maybe that was because of the introduction of the technology and the Universe of characters.
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Read in January, 2007
recommends it for:
not just science fiction fans
I feel it is wrong that John Scalzi writes scenes so emotionally gripping that they make my eyes get all watery while I'm trying to read his damn books. And then he goes and does it again.
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Read in September, 2007
It's a fun read - the concept is interesting to think about, especially for those of us on the shady side of forty. I'd recommend the whole trilogy for summer reading.
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Read in June, 2007
The last in the trilogy established in Old Man's War . Slow to start, has some loose threads never tied up, but not too bad in the second half.
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Can John Scalzi do any wrong? The man writes intelligent, fast-paced, consistently good SF. It's like crack-covered popcorn.
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Read in October, 2007
Another awesome book for those who enjoy books based alone the standard set by the Forever War and Starship Troopers.
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Read in January, 2008
An enjoyable conclusion to this trilogy - a few untidied loose ends, but plenty of amusing and adventurous fun.
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What an ending! I really didn't want this trilogy to end but since it had to I can't think of a better ending.
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Read in June, 2008
A good conclusion to the series. The science definitely doesn't get in the way of the good story telling.
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