The Ghost Brigades (Old Man's War)
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The universe is a dangerous place for humanity―and it's about to become far more dangerous. Three races that humans have clashed with before have allied to halt our expansion into space. Their linchpin: the turncoat military scientist Charles Boutin, who knows the CDF's biggest military secrets. To prevail, the CDF must find out why Boutin did what he did.
Jared Dirac is the only human who can provide answers -- a superhuman hybrid, created from Boutin's DNA, Jared's brain should be able to access Boutin's electronic memories. But when the memory transplant appears to fail, Jared is given to the Ghost Brigades.
At first, Jared is a perfect soldier, but as Boutin's memories slowly surface, Jared begins to intuit the reason's for Boutin's betrayal. As Jared desperately hunts for his "father," he must also come to grips with his own choices. Time is running out: The alliance is preparing its offensive, and some of them plan worse things than humanity's mere military defeat…
Old Man's War Series
#1 Old Man’s War
#2 The Ghost Brigades
#3 The Last Colony
#4 Zoe’s Tale
#5 The Human Division
#6 The End of All Things
Short fiction: “After the Coup”
Other Tor Books
The Android’s Dream
Agent to the Stars
Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded
Fuzzy Nation
Redshirts
Lock In
The Collapsing Empire (forthcoming)
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This second book of The Old Man's War series is a mediocre and quick read. 2/3 of the novel is more or less world building and nothing really happens.In the last part we get a bit of action, but it is all rather predictable. Nevertheless it is interesting to learn more about the Colonial Union and the other alien races. I guess you will enjoy it if you liked the first book. The only thing here that really annoyed me was the fact that Scalzi uses in his dialogs after every sentence "'...' X said". As if the reader is to stupid to make out the person currently talking. I think I noticed it here espacialy, because I just read a Stephen King novel and he is one of the best dialog writers I read so far.
Description
The universe is a dangerous place for humanity―and it's about to become far more dangerous. Three races that humans have clashed with before have allied to halt our expansion into space. Their linchpin: the turncoat military scientist Charles Boutin, who knows the CDF's biggest military secrets. To prevail, the CDF must find out why Boutin did what he did.
Jared Dirac is the only human who can provide answers -- a superhuman hybrid, created from Boutin's DNA, Jared's brain should be able to access Boutin's electronic memories. But when the memory transplant appears to fail, Jared is given to the Ghost Brigades.
At first, Jared is a perfect soldier, but as Boutin's memories slowly surface, Jared begins to intuit the reason's for Boutin's betrayal. As Jared desperately hunts for his "father," he must also come to grips with his own choices. Time is running out: The alliance is preparing its offensive, and some of them plan worse things than humanity's mere military defeat…
Old Man's War Series
#1 Old Man’s War
#2 The Ghost Brigades
#3 The Last Colony
#4 Zoe’s Tale
#5 The Human Division
#6 The End of All Things
Short fiction: “After the Coup”
Other Tor Books
The Android’s Dream
Agent to the Stars
Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded
Fuzzy Nation
Redshirts
Lock In
The Collapsing Empire (forthcoming)
Book Information
Posts
This second book of The Old Man's War series is a mediocre and quick read. 2/3 of the novel is more or less world building and nothing really happens.In the last part we get a bit of action, but it is all rather predictable. Nevertheless it is interesting to learn more about the Colonial Union and the other alien races. I guess you will enjoy it if you liked the first book. The only thing here that really annoyed me was the fact that Scalzi uses in his dialogs after every sentence "'...' X said". As if the reader is to stupid to make out the person currently talking. I think I noticed it here espacialy, because I just read a Stephen King novel and he is one of the best dialog writers I read so far.