Old Man's War is instantly recognisable as a science fiction work and yet strangely alien at the same time. But then again that is one of the topics that this work of fiction discusses in depth: the differences between what is human and what is alien. I have always appreciated science fiction and ...
I think it's the most human of all questions to ask yourself (at any stage in life really), if you could do it all over again, what would you do differently? That question takes on greater weight in the twilight years of our life and wisdom mingled with regret and nostalgia gives us an imagination r...
Since I've been complaining about structure in a lot of recent reviews, I will note that this book had a beautifully executed structure. Events logically followed events, there were appropriate rises and falls in the action, foreshadowing was established without Here There Be Foreshadowing trumpets....
A fun, interesting SF military/space opera in the same vein as Starship Troopers or The Forever War (though not as believable as either). At times there was a hair too much exposition, but the characters were deep enough to remain interesting, though the book lacks the cutting cynicism of Haldeman's...
Nice updating of the stories I associate with Heinlein. Covers a lot of ground, planetwise and timewise; short, sharp scenes of action and longer stretches of fun, idea-based chatter. Lots of ideas; a smorgasbord for the reader who likes to chew on things later: facets of war, what makes us human, h...
Originally reviewed at Bookwraiths ReviewsIn the future, mankind has finally spread out into the stars. Humans from overpopulated countries around the world taking to the stars routinely to found colonies on numerous worlds. There has been no new “renaissance” from this otherworldly exodus on moth...
I've never been fond of space operas, but I really liked the ideas behind this novel. The elderly fight the good space fight in exchange for being made young again and, if they survive their years on active duty, a second lease on life on one of the colonised planets. The trouble lay with the char...
Wow, an author that I'd been delaying getting "into" who actually lives up to the hype. What a book - it had everything I could ask for. It was one of the most approachable sci-fi books I've read, more in the vein of Ender's Game or Wool, where the people and the conflicts are the focal point, less ...
"I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army." John Scalzi draws you into his epic military sf series with one of the best opening paragraphs I have read in any fiction novel. He hits all the high points that I look for in a great science fiction ...
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