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| Original Title: | Old Man's War |
| ISBN: | 0765348276 (ISBN13: 9780765348272) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Old Man's War #1 |
| Characters: | John Perry, Jane Sagan, Harry Wilson, Leon Deak, Jesse Gonzales, Thomas Jane, Alan Rosenthal |
| Literary Awards: | Hugo Award Nominee for Best Novel (2006), Locus Award Nominee for Best SF Novel and Best First Novel (2006), Geffen Award for Best Translated Science Fiction Book (2007) |
John Scalzi
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 355 pages Rating: 4.24 | 147640 Users | 9090 Reviews
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| Title | : | Old Man's War (Old Man's War #1) |
| Author | : | John Scalzi |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 355 pages |
| Published | : | January 15th 2007 by Tor Books (first published December 27th 2005) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fiction. Space. Space Opera. War. Military Fiction. Science Fiction Fantasy |
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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.
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Ratings: 4.24 From 147640 Users | 9090 ReviewsAssessment Of Books Old Man's War (Old Man's War #1)
This is one of my favorite scifi books of late. It's more of a men's adventure novel set in a space opera. The premise is a wonderful idea, (especially for me with my age and my past career, I'd dearly love a try at another bite of the apple)The writing and character is what carried this book for me. I also loved the second book in the series as well, Ghost Brigade. My only real criticism is that it was far too short.Do not mourn me, friendsI fall as a shooting starInto the next life Holy Mother Of Graham Crackers! This book was awesome 😄When you're an old person, you can sign up to go out into the galaxy to fight in the alien war. WHAT? John Perry decided to do this when he turned seventy-five. His wife had been dead for awhile so he had nothing to lose. Or did he? He went through this process and had to leave the Earth forever. Dead to the Earth. John found some good friends on the way to their
My rating 4.8The book "Old Man's War" by John Scalzi I immediately liked when I started reading it. The first idea that old people are fighting is totally crazy but I have to admit that a writer has a lively imagination. As the writer flips the story, I simply walked into the world, strange aliens, planets, wars, and galaxies, where life and death are linked to angry wool. The question of humanity in this book hangs on a thin thread, and again as if everything is inverted, how humanity can be
EDIT 07/22/17: It has been brought to my attention that I may not have the proper Science Fiction background to understand what this book's purpose is. It's been said that it's poking fun at the genre (specifically Heinlein's work) in a way I don't have the context for. I'm often frustrated when I see others misunderstanding The Magicians trilogy in the same way I seem to have misunderstood Scalzi's work. I'm going to leave my original thoughts/rating posted because they are genuinely how I
$2.99 Kindle sale, October 7, 2018. Old Man's War is about military life in the future, fighting aliens over planets to colonize. The mysterious Colonial Defense Force recruits 75 year old men and women to fight its wars, and many sign up because some sort of second shot at youth is involved, and at this point in their lives they figure there's nothing to lose. But exactly what are they getting themselves into? And how is the CDF going to turn all these old farts into fighting machines?I was
sometimes a first novel gets everything right. writing that is clean, clear, and fluid. characterization that is simple, straightforward, and real. a narrative that hurtles forward but does not feel rushed or incomplete. ideas that feel new and that are conveyed with enthusiasm and a brisk, unpretentious freshness. such is Old Man's War.this is a military science fiction novel and the first of a series. that probably brings up a whole host of automatic preconceptions about what will be happening
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