The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi
In this, the second book in John Scalzi’s “Old Man’s War” series we get a look into, as you might guess, the Ghost Brigades of the Colonial Defense Forces. Charles Boutin was a civilian scientist for the CDF who has defected to the enemy. In order to figure out how to fight him, the CDF turns to the ghost brigades and creates a new soldier with Boutin’s DNA, Jared Dirac. Dirac must prove to his superiors and himself that he is not the traitor Boutin was.
John Scalzi has proved yet again that he can write science fiction that I actually like – rare for any author other than Douglas Adams. His characters are interesting, witty, and sympathetic and I love the say he pieces together his stories. I know people that DO read science fiction like him, but to me he’s the science fiction writer for those who don’t like science fiction.
I’m excited to finish off the series now, I’ve read everything but “The Last Colony.”
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Oh boy. I’ll have to give this a try. You just described me — I’m not a big fan of science fiction, except I do love Adams.
It isn’t Adams-like really, but still the only other scifi I like. Start with Old Man’s War, it is the first in the series.
I may have to try some of Scalzi’s work because I don’t enjoy sci-fi but both my husband and son do. They’d be so impressed if they say me reading sci-fi!
I had such fun reading these at the start of the year.
It’ll be different experience reading the Last Colony after having read Zoe’s Tale, as well. Can’t wait to see your review and how it effects your thoughts on it.
(although I don’t suppose it’s all that different to reading Zoe’s Tale after The Last Colony… Still it’ll be interesting to see if it does!)
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I used to love science fiction as a kid. But then I discovered fantasy and never really did get back to much science fiction after that. I’ve always liked Douglas Adams – I’ll have to give Scalzi a try.
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