The Last Colony

, #3

320 pages

English language

Published Feb. 27, 2007

ISBN:
978-0-7653-1697-4
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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.

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reviewed The Last Colony by John Scalzi (Old Man's War, #3)

Review of "The Last Colony (Old Man's War #3)" on 'Goodreads'

You know, this book was not great. I'm honestly getting a little bored with Scalzi's style, where a few reasonable people just sit around and say reasonable things to each other with arch-nerd humor while being more clever than everyone else and then everything works out. I found this story to be pretty bland and implausible. 3 stars might even be generous, but I like the guy, so I'll let it go.

reviewed The Last Colony by John Scalzi (Old Man's War, #3)

Review of "The Last Colony (Old Man's War #3)" on 'Goodreads'

John Scalzi hasn't failed me yet. All three books in this series so far have been gripping, stirring, exciting adventure stories with a thrilling edge of darkness. Even though he does not paint his alien characters in shades of black and white, he also does not flinch from demonstrating that some species of aliens are extremely dangerous, brutal, and willing to stop at nothing to murder and mutilate humanity. My only criticism is that an early plot-line dealing with a native threat on the colonized planet was completely dropped when the greater outside threat presented itself, and it retrospect it seems like a thread that should have been resolved or otherwise dealt with. As I understand it, his upcoming book, "Zoe's Tale", deals with the same time period but tells it from a different perspective, so that should be interesting. I look forward to reading that, and I'll definitely continue …

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