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The Bargain Nexus - The Last Colony
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Manufacturer: Tor Science Fiction
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9780765356185
ISBN: 076535618X
Label: Tor Science Fiction
Manufacturer: Tor Science Fiction
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: 2008-07-29
Publisher: Tor Science Fiction
Release Date: 2008-07-29
Studio: Tor Science Fiction
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Summary: Amazingly human
Comment: I'd like to add my own 5 stars to this amazing series that started in Old Man's War. I have to say I didn't expect the story to work it's magic on me the way it had. I thought it would be like the space operas of Peter F. Hamilton (who, btw, also writes great space operas and is one of my long favorites). I was wrong. It was profoundly more human - the plot is truly driven by the characters. While the writing style is relaxed and flows easily and beautifully. I read each of the books in only short periods of time, neither getting confused nor getting tired (because I didn't need to access the deepest branches of my BrainPal often). Yet despite that, the books provided a rich experience. The twists and plots were not convoluted as to lose the reader, but are nonetheless as exciting and surprising. The characters come alive with their own philosophical dilemmas not far from what we might experience.
I'll definitely miss John Perry and Jane Sagan, but I'll look forward to reading more about Zoe in the upcoming "Zoe's Tale".
This is a great series, and John Scalzi is a great writer. They come highly recommended.
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Summary: Every bit as good as OLD MANS WAR
Comment: If you plan to read the this book, then start with the first book OLD MANS WAR. Last Colony stands alone well as a critical analysis of humanity and a fun look at a possible future, but I think it is best when read where it belongs as the last in the series.
Last Colony catches up to John Perry, a 90 year old man in his remade body of a 30 year old, when he has retired from the Colonial Union army. He was recruited from earth, where they only accept you to travel offworld at the age of 75 and promise that your body will be rejuvenated as long as you serve a term of 2 years defending the earth colonies. But things aren't always as they seem and John served much longer, meeting Jane Sagan, a special forces soldier as in THE GHOST BRIGADES, the second in the series.
John and Jane are happy in their retirement from army life on a colony when they are tricked into serving as the administrators of a new colony that is called Roanoke--like the lost colony of America.
the book takes off fast and travels furious from there and ends on a satisfying note, which is why I like Scalzi's books.
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Summary: Great Read!!!
Comment: Haven't finished John Scalzi's third book in the 'Old Man War' series, but so far, it's been a great read. I'm going to miss the entertainment when I finish this series.
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Summary: Disappointing
Comment: The first book was truly amazing, wow what an adventure. The second was quite good as well, with as much excitement as the first. However, this third one is lifeless compared to either of the first two. I just kept waiting for something more to happen, but it goes quite slow throughout.
He has them go back to being plain ole humans, which doesn't give a lot to work with. It ends up being too much like real life... which is boring.. which is why we read science fiction to begin with.
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Summary: Twenty-five hundred pawns to king four
Comment: Scalzi's third book, at least to start, moves at an easier pace than the ones before. The protagonists of the last books have retired from the military and cast off their olive drab (skin that is). They've settled down to farming, quieting petty feuds in their community, and raising a daughter. Then comes the offer: to lead colonization of a new world. Uprooting their family hurts a bit, but they agree. They and settlers from ten planets set out for their new home on Roanoke, named for a colony from American history.
When they arrive at Roanoke, it isn't - it's a different planet, not the one they prepared for. The Union has sabotaged their starship, stranding them. The settlers haven't been told the real purpose of their colony, as an expendable chip in a high-stakes political gamble. That's when Scalzi's writing hits its stride, unwrapping layer after layer of plots, secrets, and alien motivations. Despite the threat of planetary annihilation, the biggest threat comes from their own kind - who they can't trust and can't bring themselves to betray.
Old Man's War, the first in this series, had much in common with Haldeman's Forever War, but lacked Haldeman's bitter tone. Similarly, this volume echoes Forever Free. Instead of the benign neglect given to Haldeman's little colony, though, Scalzi drives deep into the territory where power corrupts, and where innocent civilians are expected to pay the price for that corruption. It's been a long time since I've read much SF, but Scalzi has me at it again.
-- wiredweird
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Retired from his fighting days, John Perry is now village ombudsman for a human colony on distant Huckleberry. With his wife, former Special Forces warrior Jane Sagan, he farms several acres, adjudicates local disputes, and enjoys watching his adopted daughter grow up.
That is, until his and Jane's past reaches out to bring them back into the game — as leaders of a new human colony, to be peopled by settlers from all the major human worlds, for a deep political purpose that will put Perry and Sagan back in the thick of interstellar politics, betrayal, and war.
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