On and off, I've tended to read quite a bit. So, I thought I'd put up some reviews of books as I read them. In time, I may go back and add reviews of some of the books I read in the past. Not massively exciting, but I suppose it may be of interest to someone, somewhere (perhaps).
The Last Colony - John Scalzi
The finale to his "Old Man's War" trilogy, I found this a bit of a let down. The whole series was fun but not challenging, but I'd been lead to believe it might go a little beyond basic military sci-fi here. It's not a bad book, it's still a good page turner, but there's nothing to pull it out of a mediocre genre.
The first half of the book is pretty much a straight-forward story of colonisation, and is pretty dull, except for the snippets of political set-up for the second part. The later part does have some twists going on, which I'd best not spoil, but suffice to say there is some military action, which is a relieft after the tedium of the first half. The political part is surprisingly weak, mostly relying on the Heinleinesque technique of making sure that the 'baddies' do something increidbly stupid to allow the 'goodies' to show their superiority. Yay. On the other hand, at least Scalzi has no political axe to grind, so it remains good lightweight fun.
Permalink. Posted 22:26, Mon, 25 Aug 2008.
There is also a complete index of the books.
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