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Product Identifiers

PublisherDoherty Associates, LLC, Tom & Co

ISBN-100765309408

ISBN-139780765309402

eBay Product ID (ePID)127441183

Product Key Features

Book TitleOld Man's War

Number of Pages320 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2005

TopicWar & Military, Science Fiction / Space Opera, Science Fiction / Military

GenreFiction

AuthorJohn Scalzi

Book SeriesOld Man's War Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight16.6 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.7 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2004-057953

Dewey Edition22

ReviewsGripping and surpassingly original. It''s Starship Troopers without the lectures. It''s The Forever War with better sex. It''s funny, it''s sad, and it''s true., "Gripping and surpassingly original. It'sStarship Trooperswithout the lectures. It'sThe Forever Warwith better sex. It's funny, it's sad, and it's true." --Cory Doctorow "John Scalzi is a fresh and appealing new voice, andOld Man's Waris classic SF seen from a modern perspective--a fast-paced tour of a daunting, hostile universe." --Robert Charles Wilson, Gripping and surpassingly original. It's Starship Troopers without the lectures. It's The Forever War with better sex. It's funny, it's sad, and it's true., "Gripping and surpassingly original. It's Starship Troopers without the lectures. It's The Forever War with better sex. It's funny, it's sad, and it's true." --Cory Doctorow "John Scalzi is a fresh and appealing new voice, and Old Man's War is classic SF seen from a modern perspective--a fast-paced tour of a daunting, hostile universe." --Robert Charles Wilson, John Scalzi is a fresh and appealing new voice, and Old Man's War is classic SF seen from a modern perspective--a fast-paced tour of a daunting, hostile universe.

Dewey Decimal813.6

SynopsisJohn 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.

LC Classification NumberPS3619.C256O43 2005