Because the actual fight, light-years from home, is far, far harder than he can imagine-and what he will become is far stranger. Old Man’s War is a Robert Heinlein-style novel about soldiers fighting to secure a foothold for humanity across the galaxy. He has only the vaguest idea what to expect. And if you survive, you’ll be given a generous homestead stake of your own, on one of our hard-won colony planets. You’ll be taken off Earth and never allowed to return. They don’t want young people they want people who carry the knowledge and skills of decades of living. Everybody knows that when you reach retirement age, you can join the CDF. The bulk of humanity’s resources are in the hands of the Colonial Defense Force. Far from Earth, the war has been going on for decades: brutal, bloody, unyielding. To defend Earth, and to stake our own claim to planetary real estate. The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scarce-and alien races willing to fight us for them are common. The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. This is Scalzi's first novel, and it creates a future he will revisit in subsequent stories. If, against the odds, they survive two years of combat (or 10 years if things aren't going well, which they're not), they get another body and enjoy a fresh start on a colony. His other books include The Ghost Brigades and The Android's Dream. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and his debut novel Old Man's War was a finalist for science fiction's Hugo Award. About the Author John Scalzi won the 2006 John W.

Citizens volunteer for the Colonial Defense Forces after retirement, in exchange for which they have their consciousness transferred into a young body, cloned from their DNA but enhanced. Smartly conceived and thoroughly entertaining, Old Man's War is a splendid novel.

John Scalzi channels Robert Heinlein (including a wry sense of humor) in a novel about a future Earth engaged in an interstellar war against more advanced species.

Old Man's War by John Scalzi