This is related to Scalzi's Old Man's War trilogy - it goes right between The Ghost Brigades and The Last Colony.

This is a lovely and moving book; it makes me smile, it makes me laugh, sometimes it can even make me cry. The insight into the mind of Jane Sagan, and into the lives of the members of the Ghost Brigades, is really amazing.

The audio version is available free at Scalzi's website.
The full text is available free at the Subterranean Press website. ( )

http://madstopreading.wordpress.com/2... ( )

http://www.piruett.se/2008/03/26/the-... ( )

http://www.amazon.com/review/RVZVJCMQ... ( )

The Sagan Diary begins with a tech type whingeing about how the specially grown Special Forces types aren't really allowing full access to their brainpal records when they change to new bodies for settlement.

It then changes to Jane reminiscing, somewhat lyrically at times about stages and times in her life before she undergoes a body swap to go and settle on a planet.

The audio version is read by several different women, some sf writers.

http://www.scalzi.com/whatever/004836...
http://scalzi.com/sagandiary/tsdc0.mp...
http://subterraneanpress.com/index.ph...

http://freesf.blogspot.com/2007/04/sa... ( )