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

John Scalzi: The Last Colony (2007) 4 stars

Retired from his fighting days, John Perry is now village ombudsman for a human colony …

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

4 stars

Scalzi has a gift for handling poignant emotion as deftly as sci-fi action, world-building, and the political mechanics of alliances and enemies. All of his characters talk like each other (even the murderous, dominating Consu aliens have an insult-laden sarcastic edge), but luckily that voice is an easygoing, affable sardonic wit that (usually) doesn’t wear too thin.