The Sagan Diary

Not my cup of tea.

This isn't written as a story. As the title states, it's written more like a diary. As such, it includes a lot of introspective fluff. It is science fiction, but it also belongs in the romance category - and perhaps a bit of the poetry category. No offense is intended toward the author, but it's just not my preferred type of reading.

Another short story from the wonderful Old Man's War series in the form of a diary from CSF Lt. Jane Sagan and her last days before the transfer of her consciousness to a standard human body.

I'm not usually fond of this kind of stories taken out of some person's consciousness, they're just too deep for me. I liked this one, though. You get the chance to know a little more about Sagan's feelings and CSF in general. You also realized about her complicated friendship with PoW Cainen.

I think I'm in love with Jane but that also means I'm in love with Scalzi. The latter I already knew. Anyway, let there be love.

Meh.

meh. This didn't really feel like Jane Sagan. I wouldn't expect her ‘internal monologue' to sound exactly like her ‘soldier voice', but I'd expect to see similarities in the same person. While I did laugh during the sex chapter where she has no idea (or interest in) what John is talking about, that was about the only part of the novella that was engaging.

This was awful. As Scalzi says of himself in the introduction, he writes good action and good dialogue. Having made my way through two of his attempts to write female protagonists, I'm confident that this is something he can't do.

Angsty and too long, this internal monologue actually makes me like and respect his character of Jane Sagan a great deal less. Which is a shame, because I loved her in Old Man's War and Ghost Brigades, and in the small role she played in Last Colony :-(