Old Man's War

John Scalzi

Science Fiction

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Perfect for an entry-level sci-fi reader and the ideal addition to a veteran fan’s collection, John Scalzi's Old Man’s War will take audiences on a heart-stopping adventure into the far corners of the universe.

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.

So: we fight. To defend Earth (a target for our new enemies, should we let them get close enough) and to stake our own claim to planetary real estate. Far from Earth, the war has gone 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, which shields the home planet from too much knowledge of the situation. What's known to everybody is 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 your time 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.

Old Man's War Series
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#2 The Ghost Brigades
#3 The Last Colony
#4 Zoe’s Tale
#5 The Human Division
#6 The End of All Things
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Über John Scalzi

John Scalzi, Jahrgang 1969, wuchs in Kalifornien auf. Nach dem College arbeitete er zunächst als Filmkritiker und später als Redakteur des Internet-Magazins America Online. Bereits sein Debütroman Krieg der Klone war so erfolgreich, dass John Scalzi sich von da an hauptberuflich dem Schreiben seiner Science-Fiction-Romane widmete. Nebenbei unterhält er schon seit Jahren seinen vielbesuchten Blog The Whatever. Mit seiner Frau und seiner Tochter lebt der Autor in Ohio.


Verlag:

Tor Books

Veröffentlicht:

2007

Druckseiten:

ca. 276

Sprache:

English

Medientyp:

eBook


1 Kommentar zu „Old Man's War“

Vor Jahren schon mal gelesen, und trotzdem wieder verschlungen. Voll Witz und trotzdem Military SF at its best.

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