Recommended Age:
16
+
Great for readers who like fast-paced, character-driven science fiction with immersive military adventure elements.
About the Book
At age seventy-five, John Perry enlists in the Colonial Defense Forces who recruit only the elderly and receives a new engineered combat body, discovering that humanity is engaged in a brutal and constant war for habitable planets across the galaxy. Fast-paced, funny, and emotionally smart, the novel is an affectionate engagement with Heinlein's military science fiction tradition that also grapples seriously with mortality, identity, and the cost of war. A massively entertaining debut.
Content Ratings
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Moderate Themes
The book explores identity continuity after radical bodily transformation, grief and its relationship to memory, and the moral ambiguity of colonial warfare waged for human survival at the expense of alien civilizations.
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High Violence
Military combat against multiple alien species occurs. Soldiers are killed and kill others. Interstellar warfare is brutal.
