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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Starship Troopers, again.  mulliner | Oct 17, 2009 |  Perhaps Cory Doctorow described it best when he wrote, “Old Man’s War is Starship Troopers without the lectures and Forever War with better sex.” That just about says it all, though it speaks more to the juvenile nature of the sex in Forever War than to any sex which may be present in Old Man’s War, which is pretty negligible. An elderly widower, with little else to live for, joins the army. At the time, many elderly humans join the Colonial Defense Force because of the promise of a return to their youth. The Colonials are apparently technologically superior, owning the secret for interstellar travel (the skip drive) as well as the secret for eternal youth. While the science in this novel is outstanding and the premise is good, much of the dialogue is contrived and trite. This is the first in a series of three novels and well worth proceeding to the second, The Ghost Brigades. (  ) santhony | Oct 5, 2009 | I was very impressed by this book. A space war book with a whole new twist & look. The writing was excellent, the plot tight & the characterization was wonderful. I could really identify with the main character & understood the motivations of even the oddest aliens, as much as the character could anyway. There was plenty of action, but that wasn't the main thrust of the book. It carried along a lot pretty neat ideas on what our future might be like & took a sideways look at what constitutes a 'man'. Definitely worth reading & I'm looking forward to other books by the author. ( ) jimmaclachlan | Sep 25, 2009 | I would give this book a 3 for story and 4s for cool science and characters. I just felt like more should have happened in the book, but overall I found it to be very enjoyable and had a great sci fi concept. (  ) Nikkles | Sep 7, 2009 | Vivid characters. Very funny, especially the first half of the book, where Perry joins the army as an "old fart" and gets acclimatized to his new body. Fast-paced scenes of combat, with an end that leaves you wanting more. (  ) betula.alba | Aug 9, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0765315246, Paperback)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. (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:12 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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