Old Man's War - John Scalzi - 2007 Tor Books Paperback

Description: Old Man's War - John Scalzi - 2007 Tor Books Paperback Acceptable: Please see the images for more details. Sun washed cover. This title is a part of our Science Fiction Summer Reads List! Here's a link to snag a brand new paperback version through our affiliate partnership with Bookshop.org.Publisher blurb: "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 aliens willing to fight for them are common. The universe, it turns out, is a hostile place.So: we fight. To defend Earth (a target for our new enemies, should we let them get close enough) and to stake our own claim to planetary real estate. Far from Earth, the war has gone on for decades: brutal, bloody, unyielding.Earth itself is a backwater. The bulk of humanity's resources are in the hands of the Colonial Defense Force, which shields the home planet from too much knowledge of the situation. What's known to everybody is that when you reach retirement age, you can join the CDF. They don't want young people they want people who carry the knowledge and skills of decades of living. You'll be taken off Earth and never allowed to return. You'll serve your time at the front. And if you survive, you'll be given a generous homestead stake of your own, on one of our hard-won colony planets.John Perry is taking that deal. He has only the vaguest idea what to expect. Because the actual fight, light-years from home, is far, far harder than he can imagine and what he will become is far stranger." Awards: 2006 Hugo Nominated2006 Locus FN Nominated Old Man's War - John Scalzi - 2007 Tor Books Paperback Acceptable: Please see the images for more details. Sun washed cover. This title is a part of our Science Fiction Summer Reads List! Here's a link to snag a brand new paperback version through our affiliate partnership with Bookshop.org. Publisher blurb: "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 aliens willing to fight for them are common. The universe, it turns out, is a hostile place.So: we fight. To defend Earth (a target for our new enemies, should we let them get close enough) and to stake our own claim to planetary real estate. Far from Earth, the war has gone on for decades: brutal, bloody, unyielding.Earth itself is a backwater. The bulk of humanity's resources are in the hands of the Colonial Defense Force, which shields the home planet from too much knowledge of the situation. What's known to everybody is that when you reach retirement age, you can join the CDF. They don't want young people they want people who carry the knowledge and skills of decades of living. You'll be taken off Earth and never allowed to return. You'll serve your time at the front. And if you survive, you'll be given a generous homestead stake of your own, on one of our hard-won colony planets.John Perry is taking that deal. He has only the vaguest idea what to expect. Because the actual fight, light-years from home, is far, far harder than he can imagine and what he will become is far stranger." Awards: 2006 Hugo Nominated2006 Locus FN Nominated × × × × × × × × Buy now and save! Tell a friend Visit store Watch now You might also like Pinocchio-Carlo Collodi, Charles Folkard - 1916 David McKay Company hardback God's Treasure House Unlocked - Charles G. Schuh 1887 Cranston & Stowe hardback Lavender and Old Lace - Myrtle Reed 1902 Grosset & Dunlap vintage hardback Walden or Life in the Woods - Henry David Thoreau Riverside Library edition eBay integration by

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