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Books : The Last ColonyIn association with Amazon.comby: John Scalzi  Amazon.com's Price: $7.99 Prices subject to change.Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: Mass Market PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813.6 EAN: 9780765356185 ISBN: 076535618X Label: Tor Science Fiction Manufacturer: Tor Science Fiction Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 336 Publication Date: July 29, 2008 Publisher: Tor Science Fiction Release Date: July 29, 2008 Studio: Tor Science Fiction Sales Rank: 4021 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Retired from his fighting days, John Perry is now village ombudsman for a human colony on distant Huckleberry. With his wife, former Special Forces warrior Jane Sagan, he farms several acres, adjudicates local disputes, and enjoys watching his adopted daughter grow up. That is, until his and Jane's past reaches out to bring them back into the game — as leaders of a new human colony, to be peopled by settlers from all the major human worlds, for a deep political purpose that will put Perry and Sagan back in the thick of interstellar politics, betrayal, and war. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Amazingly humanI'd like to add my own 5 stars to this amazing series that started in Old Man's War. I have to say I didn't expect the story to work it's magic on me the way it had. I thought it would be like the space operas of Peter F. Hamilton (who, btw, also writes great space operas and is one of my long favorites). I was wrong. It was profoundly more human - the plot is truly driven by the characters. While the writing style is relaxed and flows easily and beautifully. I read each of the books in only short ... Read More Rating: - Every bit as good as OLD MANS WARIf you plan to read the this book, then start with the first book OLD MANS WAR. Last Colony stands alone well as a critical analysis of humanity and a fun look at a possible future, but I think it is best when read where it belongs as the last in the series. Last Colony catches up to John Perry, a 90 year old man in his remade body of a 30 year old, when he has retired from the Colonial Union army. He was recruited from earth, where they only accept you to travel offworld at the age ... Read More Rating: - Great Read!!!Haven't finished John Scalzi's third book in the 'Old Man War' series, but so far, it's been a great read. I'm going to miss the entertainment when I finish this series. Rating:  - DisappointingThe first book was truly amazing, wow what an adventure. The second was quite good as well, with as much excitement as the first. However, this third one is lifeless compared to either of the first two. I just kept waiting for something more to happen, but it goes quite slow throughout. He has them go back to being plain ole humans, which doesn't give a lot to work with. It ends up being too much like real life... which is boring.. which is why we read science fiction to begin with. Rating: - Twenty-five hundred pawns to king fourScalzi's third book, at least to start, moves at an easier pace than the ones before. The protagonists of the last books have retired from the military and cast off their olive drab (skin that is). They've settled down to farming, quieting petty feuds in their community, and raising a daughter. Then comes the offer: to lead colonization of a new world. Uprooting their family hurts a bit, but they agree. They and settlers from ten planets set out for their new home on Roanoke, named for a colony from ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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