FIVE BIG ONES

John Scalzi (1969 - )

OLD MAN’S WAR

First Mass Market Edition: January 2007

[First Edition - 2005]

Tor - registered trademark of Tom Doherty Associates, LLC

214 pages including Acknowledgements

I must say, right out of the gate, that I was very sorry to turn the last page in this book but very favorably so when I read, within the last few pages, an Excerpt from The Ghost Brigades, the sequel. Yippee… and, even more so when I prepared to percolate said sequel and discovered that this is a Trilogy with The Last Colony as it‘s conclusion.

I don’t usually like Military, let alone Science Fiction Military with the exception of Ender’s Game, so imagine my thrill when the comparisons between the two books began to surface.

John Perry is 75 years old, and has joined the Colonial Defense Forces (Army). In so doing he must leave Earth and fight a war against alien races who are attempting to take control of the planets that are fit to live on, including the Earth he will never see again. He joins for one reason: old John Perry will be made young again, and age will no longer be a factor. That is, if he survives.

This is Scalzi’s first published novel.

*****
one hell of a ride!
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