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The Ghost Brigades

This second novel in a science fiction trilogy by John Scalzi is almost better than the first, "Old Man’s War," although the central love story is pale by comparison to the one in the first book. Still, there is a lot of thoughtfulness on the issues of human consciousness and love. Like the first book, the second one was hard to put down, even though I was reading three other non-fiction books at the time. I simply set them aside until I finished. The novel also contains a preview of the last book, "The Last Colony," which came out last month. I’ll definitely buy it, when it’s out in paperback, to find out what happens next. I might not wait for paper.

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.