M.d.'s review
Old Man's War
by John Scalzi
M.d.'s review
Old Man's War by John Scalzi
M.d.'s review
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Old Man's War, by John Scalzi.
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 aliens willing to fight for them are common. The universe, it turns out, is a hostile place.
John, of course, does not fight in his seventy-five year old body. He is given a new, much improved one (sort of the Six Million Dollar Man on steroids) that transforms him into a mean fighting machine. He'll need all of his resources. It's a scary, violent, deadly universe out there; soldiers are lucky to last a few months. We follow John and his "family", a group of elderly who joined at the same time he did, from boot camp to the interstellar fighting fields. Not all of them survive.
Scalzi retains his smoothly flowing style in Old Man's War, and there are traces of humour reminiscent of his first nove...more
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 aliens willing to fight for them are common. The universe, it turns out, is a hostile place.
John, of course, does not fight in his seventy-five year old body. He is given a new, much improved one (sort of the Six Million Dollar Man on steroids) that transforms him into a mean fighting machine. He'll need all of his resources. It's a scary, violent, deadly universe out there; soldiers are lucky to last a few months. We follow John and his "family", a group of elderly who joined at the same time he did, from boot camp to the interstellar fighting fields. Not all of them survive.
Scalzi retains his smoothly flowing style in Old Man's War, and there are traces of humour reminiscent of his first nove...more