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Rated 5 starsA Brain Possessed
The Ghost Brigades (2006) is the second novel in the Old Man's War series, following Old Man's War. In the previous volume, John Perry became an official CDF hero and made barnstorming tours around the colonies. Jane Sagan went back to work in the Special Forces, AKA the Ghost Brigades. In this novel, Jane leads a raid on an Obin colony world. The Special Forces take one Rraey prisoner from the Eneshan facility. After...
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Rated 5 starsThe life of the Special Forces is never dull
The Ghost Brigades, by John Scalzi, is the follow-up novel to Old Man's War. It's not a direct sequel, though subsequent events will show that it actually is, in a sense. Instead, it features the love of John Perry's life, Jane Sagan, Special Forces ("Ghost Brigades") officer. This book is a lot grittier than the Old Man's War, and the point of view choices are much different. It's just as effective, though, with fewer...
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Rated 5 starsAnother winner from a new sci-fi great!
"Ghost Brigades" follows "Old Man's War" but is less a sequel than simply the next chapter in the history of this fictive universe. The basic premise of both books is that in the future, humanity has colonized many planets, and discovered other intelligent species in the galaxy. Sadly, everyone is into the colonizing thing, creating competition, also called "war". Humanity's answer is the Colonial Union (CU) and it's military...
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Rated 5 starsResounding follow on to Old Man's War
I just finished The Ghost Brigades, I am one of those that for my favorite authors I sit down and read the book as soon as I get my hands on it. It fulfilled the promise of his first, Old Man's War, and more. At first I found the secondary issue of Boutin's consciousness as an irritant to the general story line, but I believed that he would eventually become important and of course it did. The climax of the story when...
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Rated 5 starsAnother page turner from Scalzi
Like Old Man's War, this new novel is somewhere between a fanboy's homage and a real work of art- but it's a lot closer to the latter than the former. The alliance of three hostile species alluded to in the blurbs adds more than enough tension to keep the atmosphere sizzling, and the habits of some of the species encountered bring horror to the table as well. The surprises keep coming as we learn more about the CDF's Special...
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