The Last Colony
by John Scalzi
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Author: John ScalziEdition: Hardcover
Published: 2007-04-17
ISBN: 0765316978
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Tor Books
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Book Review: Just stop at Ghost Brigades
Summary: 2 Stars
I read both of the previous books: Old Man's War and Ghost Brigades and this Last Colony was a huge let-down.
There are several brief part of this book that got me somewhat interested, but overall it is rather boring.
Writing is down right bad. Scalzi's characters all talk as if it was the same person. John Perry, who in the first book was wisecrack, here becomes just a guy who has to be the one to finish the already annoying conversations.
Almost no new ideas or technology were introduced - although some were stolen from, for example, The Forever War.
If Old Men's War was an "A-", Ghost Brigades was a solid "B", this barely scrapes by with a "C-"
Don't read it, just stop at Ghost Brigades.
Summary of The Last Colony
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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