Old Man’s War

I’d read Instapundit’s remarks on John Scalzi’s sci-fi novel "Old Man’s War," and so decided to give it a try. Years since I read science fiction. The book lives up to its billing, although I wonder about the apparent put-down of the space elevator as impossible without advanced technology, which was unexplained, other than to say it was even beyond the already understood need for improvements in materials for the cables… Anyhow, that’s a quibble when the rest of the book is pretty enthralling, the ideas believable, and the love story at its heart quite compelling.