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John Scalzi is one of the most popular and acclaimed SF authors of his generation. His debut, Old Manâs War, won him science fictionâs John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. His New York Times bestsellers include The Last Colony, Fuzzy Nation, Lock In, Redshirts, which won 2013âs Hugo Award for Best Novel, The Last Emperox and The Kaiju Preservation Society. Material from his widely read blog Whatever has also earned him two other Hugo Awards. He lives in Ohio with his wife and daughter.A mix of <i>Starship Troopers</i> and <i>Universal Soldier</i>, <i>Ghost</i> evokes awakening, betrayal, and combat in the best military sci-fi tradition.
Entertainment Weekly
Scalzi's prose harkens back to the Golden Age of science fiction while still remaining fresh and vibrant
Strange Horizons
Like <i>Old Man's War</i>, <i>The Ghost Brigades</i> is thinking fans' space opera . . . <i>The Ghost Brigades </i>maintains Scalzi's standing as one of SF's most rewarding purveyors of thrilling, gut-wrenching, and thoughtful space opera
SF Reviews
If anyone stands at the core of the American science fiction tradition at the moment, it is Scalzi.
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
The military science fiction sequel to his extraordinary Old Man's War, John Scalzi's The Ghost Brigades is the second in The Old Man's War series.
Who can you trust, if you can't trust yourself?
Three hostile alien races have united against humanity, determined to halt our expansion into space. The mastermind behind this lethal alliance is a traitor â Charles Boutin. He was a Colonial Defence Force scientist, with access to their biggest military secrets. Now the CDF's only hope is to discover Boutin's plan. Trouble is, Boutin's dead.
As a super-soldier created from Boutin's own DNA, Jared Dirac may have answers. However, when Dirac fails to access the scientist's memories, he's transferred to the Ghost Brigades for training. These elite troops are also cloned from the dead, so he might fit in. But will Dirac's memory return as the enemy plots the fate of humankind? And whose side is Dirac really on?
'A mix of Starship Troopers and Universal Soldier, Ghost evokes awakening, betrayal, and combat in the best military sci-fi tradition' â Entertainment Weekly
Continue the gripping space war series with The Last Colony.
The Hugo Award-nominated The Old Manâs War series by John Scalzi is sharp, funny, action-packed science fiction, in the vein of Robert Heinleinâs classic Starship Troopers. Scalziâs light touch and comic dialogue make this the perfect entry point for readers new to science fiction, as well as for veteran SF fans. Set in a future where human beings have spread out across the galaxy, the series opens with Old Manâs War, in which 75-year-old John Perry joins the army. The Colonial Defence Forces have the technology to transplant his consciousness into a much younger body crafted from his original DNA â but in return, he owes them two years of service defending humanity from hostile aliens. Space, it turns out, is a lot more dangerous than he expected.
âGripping and surpassingly original lectures . . . It's funny, it's sad, and it's trueâ Cory Doctorow
âJohn Scalzi is the most entertaining, accessible writer working in SF todayâ Joe Hill