Old Man's War is the
first novel in John Scalzi's Old Man's War series.
I’ve just read the lot (in order)
·
The first book follows the
adventures of John Perry who leaves Earth as an extremely old man to go join
the space soldiers to fight aliens
·
The second book (The
Ghost Brigades) features his dead wife.
·
The third book (The
Last Colony) and the fourth book (Zoe's Tale) tell the same story
but from differing perspectives.
·
The fifth book (The
Human Division) was originally published as a serial and then collected in
a novel.
·
The last book in the
series (The End of All Things) is four short stories which would have
been better written as a novel.
What can I say? The
story started well… The second book was OK. The third and fourth book was where
I got bored. Realistically you only need to read one of these two; I’d suggest
ignoring the third book.
But by the time we get
to the fifth book, they aren’t books any more. Just a
load of disjointed short stories. Readable…but disjointed.