Scalzi, John -- Old Man's War
I read this on Scalzi's web site Way Back When. Old guy signs up on a
one-way trip to Explore the Off-World Colonies! Up side: restored
youth; down side: it's a military ticket. Most of Earth's old folks go
for the deal. We thus get a war story which isn't the growing-up of
a naive teenager, which is worth the price by itself. Enthusiatically
told and funny, too. The plot of the last section goes off in a
somewhat unrelated direction; you could look at this as a set of
closely-linked novellas, or as the beginning of a trilogy with
long-term plot threads.
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