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Finally got around to reading "Old Mans War"...
DAMN that's a really, really good book. His writing style is great too...
Are the follow on books as good or was it a one shot wonder?
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Scalzi's left wing politics start to peek out more and more.
In Old Man's War, the galaxy is a screwed up place, and it's kill or be killed. We expect our military to do shitty, nasty things to other races because if they don't those other races are going to do shitty, nasty things to us. I dig that, I don't expect war books where everyone's a shining paragon of virtue, the world's a messed up place and I don't mind if an author projects that onto the galaxy. Heck, it's a nice change from the galactic group hug that Star Trek seems to revolve around.
By about the 3rd book in the series it turns out that it's all the racist human's fault, the galaxy would be a fairly peaceful place if it wasn't for us screwing everything up. Note that all of those books were written when Bush was president.