The Last Colony
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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. Old Man's War Series #1 Old Man’s War #2 The Ghost Brigades #3 The Last Colony #4 Zoe’s Tale #5 The Human Division #6 The End of All Things Short fiction: “After the Coup” Other Tor Books The Android’s Dream Agent to the Stars Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded Fuzzy Nation Redshirts Lock In The Collapsing Empire (forthcoming) At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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6 primary books26 released books#3 in Old Man's War
Old Man's War is a 26-book series with 6 released primary works first released in 2005 with contributions by John Scalzi. 1 book is still to be released. The next book is scheduled for release on .
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The Last Colony, the third book in John Scalzi???s OLD MAN???S WAR series, returns us to the perspective of John Perry, the ???old man??? hero of the first novel in the series, Old Man???s War. John Perry is only mentioned in the second novel, The Ghost Brigades, which told the story of how the cyborg Special Forces soldiers found and defeated the scientist Charles Boutin, a traitor to the Colonial Union. On that mission they also found Zoe, Boutin???s young daughter. Zoe has been adopted by Jane Sagan and John Perry and the little family has been farming on one of Earth???s colonies where John and Jane are the leaders.
Life is easy for them until the Colonial Union comes calling ??? they need leaders for a new colonization effort and John and Jane have been selected. This new colony (named Roanoke???. hmmmm??? I think I wouldn???t have signed up for that) will be comprised of people from several different human worlds and John and Jane are responsible for its success. However, the Colonial Union hasn???t been completely honest with them. It will be a lot more dangerous than the members of Roanoke have been led to believe. They are being played as political pawns and they don???t realize it until it???s too late. And it???s not just Roanoke that???s in danger, but the entire human race... Read More:
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This book continues the trend of fleshing out the universe of Old Man's War and the ending opens up opportunities that make me excited for the rest of the books in the series but I kind of found this one to be slower and not as fun as the other two books. I'll probably continue the rest of the series in the future though.
