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Old Man's War (Book 2)

John Scalzi

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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 adopte... More details on The Last Colony

Earth you know; everyone knows it. It’s the birthplace of humanity, although at this point not many consider it our “home” planet—Phoenix has had that job since the Colonial Union was created and beca...
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How do you tell your part in the biggest tale in history?

I ask because it's what I have to do. I'm Zoe Boutin Perry: A colonist stranded on a deadly pioneer world. Holy icon to a race of aliens. A player (and a pawn) in a interstellar chess match to... More details on Zoe's Tale

It was the flying saucer that got my attention. Green men aren’t actually unheard of where I come from. All the Colonial Defense Forces were green; it’s part of the genetic engineering they do on them...
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2043 A.D.: The Ngumi War rages. A burned-out soldier and his scientist lover discover a secret that could put the universe back to square one. And it is not terrifying. It is tempting…... More details on Forever Peace

Black on black it paused, then slipped through the jungle like a heavy silent reptile. A man could be standing two yards away and not see it. In infrared it wasn’t there. Radar would slither off its s...
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It was supposed to be a simple proof of concept. The physics were sound. Over one hundred teleportation experiments had already been successfully performed...

Debate rages over whether the Reidier Test's disastrous outcome resulted from human error,... More details on Here & There

All those involved in* privy to The Reidier Test found themselves (and continue to find themselves) in complete and utter agreement as to “what happened.” DARPA had gathered its top brass, a handful o...
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Earth, 2508 A.D. Humans have spread across the six arms of the Milky Way Galaxy. The Unified Authority controls Earth's colonies with an iron fist and a powerful military-a military made up almost entirely of clones…... More details on The Clone Republic

“Name?” The sergeant barked the question without bothering to look up from his desk. I heard the indifference in his voice and could not fault him for his callous attitude. Nothing important ever hap...
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John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife's grave. Then he joined the army.

The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scarce-and alien races... More details on Old Man's War

Visiting Kathy's grave was the less dramatic of the two. She's buried in Harris Creek Cemetery, not more than a mile down the road from where I live and where we raised our family. Getting her into th...
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The sequel to The Forever War - Joe Haldeman's legendary intergalactic Vietnam War parable. Stunningly realized by Marvano. The Forever War has ended and the survivors are left to pick up the pieces. But what remains of the human race struggles to fi... More details on Forever Free

Winter is a long time coming on this god-forsaken planet, and it stays too long, too, I watched a sudden gust blow a line of cold foam across the grey lake and thought about Earth, not for the first t...
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In a land where gods walk on the hills and goddesses rise from river, lake, and spring, the caravan-guard Holla-Sayan, escaping the bloody conquest of a lakeside town, stops to help an abandoned child and a dying dog. The girl, though, is the incarna... More details on Blackdog

The sun, sliding between the peaks at the western end of the lake, turned the Lissavakail’s waters to molten copper, while the swallows made their last scrolling passes over the waves. The chief of th...
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The first novel in William C. Dietz's acclaimed Legion of the Damned series…

There is one final choice for the hopeless-the terminally ill, the condemned criminals, the victims who cannot be saved: becoming cyborg soldiers in the Legion. Their human ... More details on Legion of the Damned

Colonel Natalie Norwood stepped out of the underground command post and into the elevator. Though normally spotless, it stank of vomit and was littered with bloody bandages, used hypo cartridges, and ...
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"HUMANITY'S LAST HOPE"

It begins when a man delivers a message for former government agent Frank Compton-only to fall dead at his feet. The message is a summons from the Spiders, the exotic and mysterious creatures who run the Quadrail, an incredibl... More details on Night Train to Rigel

He was leaning against the side of an autocab by the curb as I walked through the door and atmosphere curtain of the New Pallas Towers into the chilly Manhattan night air. He was short and thin, with ...
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