John Scalzi's Old Man's War
I wanted to read a fun sci-fi series and several people whose tastes I trust have recommended this over the years, plus I like what I’ve read of Scalzi's stuff, so here we go! This has a wild premise: when people on earth turn 75, they can enlist in the space army, who will turn them young again so they can fight aliens and thus colonize far off planets. But actually I loved all this? A good mix of outer space science stuff, friendships, battles, action, etc. I really enjoyed the narrative voice. I was mildly sad that everyone named their personal brain AI stuff like “asshole” when obviously I would have named it after a pet. But that’s not really a quibble. Can’t wait to see what happens next. A/A-.
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