{"id":1970,"date":"2007-06-17T15:18:29","date_gmt":"2007-06-17T15:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2007\/06\/old_mans_war\/"},"modified":"2007-06-17T15:18:29","modified_gmt":"2007-06-17T15:18:29","slug":"old_mans_war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/old_mans_war\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Man&#8217;s War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk\/e\/cm?t=friday05-21&#038;o=2&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0330452169&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000ff&#038;bc1=ffffff&#038;npa=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;IS1=1&#038;f=ifr&#038;bg1=ffffff\" width=\"120\" height=\"240\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" align=\"right\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><br \/>\nI picked this up in Waterstones the other day, purely because it was the SF novel of the month. But I&#8217;m glad I did. John Scalzi has created an interesting world in which 75 year-olds, their bodies decrepit despite organ transplants and cosmetic surgery, sign up to fight for the Colonial Defence Force, millions of light years away from Earth, knowing that they&#8217;ll never return.<br \/>\nWhy OAPs should be fit for this kind of active service is unclear to the pensioners. But they sign anyway, and soon all is revealed&#8230;<br \/>\nI won&#8217;t give the story away, except to say that this is a rollicking space adventure, and it&#8217;s not Cocoon. There are aliens a plenty and battles all over the place.<br \/>\nIt comes as no surprise to realise that there are more stories to be told in this universe. I&#8217;ll be there.<br \/>\nAs an aside, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marc_Andreessen\">Marc Andreessen<\/a>, previously of Netscape, has listed Scalzi as one of his <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.pmarca.com\/2007\/06\/top_10_science_.html\">favourite SF novelists<\/a> of the &#8217;00s so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked this up in Waterstones the other day, purely because it was the SF novel of the month. But I&#8217;m glad I did. John Scalzi has created an interesting world in which 75 year-olds, their bodies decrepit despite organ transplants and cosmetic surgery, sign up to fight for the Colonial Defence Force, millions of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}