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In ferner Zukunft wird der interstellare Krieg gegen Alien-Invasionen mit scheinbar bizarren Mitteln gefu?hrt: Fu?r die Verteidigung der Kolonien weit draußen im All werden nur alte Menschen rekrutiert. So wie John Perry, der mit 75 noch einmal einen neuen Anfang machen will. Doch bald erfa?hrt er das wohlgehu?tete Geheimnis: Das Bewusstsein der Rekruten wird in ju?ngere Klone ihrer selbst u?bertragen, die als unerscho?pfliches Kanonenfutter in den Kampf geschickt werden...… (mehr)
JulesJones: Two books which examine in different ways what happens to the recruits in an interstellar war who by the very nature of their service can never go back to their home culture.
JulesJones: The obvious Heinlein influence on Scalzi's "Old Man's War" is "Starship Troopers", but this also covers some of the same ground as Heinlein's YA "Space Cadet".
tottman: 47 Echo lacks the depth (and the universe-spanning scope) of Old Man's War, but the story and the fighting are both quite enjoyable. I won't say it's nearly as good as Old Man's War, but it is a quick, fun enjoyable read. And there's a lot of potential from this author I hope to see come out in future books.… (mehr)
Well written. Detailed and descriptive settings and characters/aliens. Told in three Parts. Part 1 - interesting; Part 2 - interesting, then repetitive re the messaging; Part 3 - interesting again. Part of a series. Won't be reading more in this universe. ( )
I find this book enjoyable and clever. It starts with a good idea about the future of space colonization, and then devolves in a somewhat pleasant way into basically short stories about the missions of the CDF in space as they fight for control of various planets with other species. The ideas were good, the story moved at a good pace, and the writing was less bad than most similar science fiction (and was indeed quite solid given the plot/the need for a mix of show and tell given the genre). Definitely the book ended feeling more like a loose collection of ideas than one coherent story, as the final battles related to plot that was building only since 100 pages prior, and not for the whole book, but I think this meandering style fit with the book's tone nicely. Overall, recommended to those who are looking for something thought provoking but not overly serious in the science fiction genre. ( )
Fast-paced, gripping and filled with human moments and a witty, intelligent protagonist. I don't feel it's too beneficial to give too much information about the story of the book in a review as it's better taken without knowledge of what's coming up - even in a war book, there's plenty of intrigue and revelations to be had about the plot.
Highly recommend to any fan of sci-fi, and I will be picking up the sequel. ( )
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To Regan Avery, first reader extraordinaire, And always to Kristine and Athena.
Erste Worte
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I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday.
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There has never been a military in the entire history of the human race that has gone to war equipped with more than the least that it needs to fight its enemy. War is expensive. It costs money and it costs lives and no civilization has an infinite amount of either. So when you fight, you conserve. You use and equip only as much as you have to, never more.
The reason we use force...is that force is the easiest thing to use. It's fast, it's straightforward, and compared to the complexities of diplomacy, it's simple. You either hold a piece of land or you don't. As opposed to diplomacy, which is intellectually a much more difficult enterprise.
. . . "There has never been a military in the entire history of the human race that has gone to war equipped with more than the least that it needs to fight its enemy. War is expensive. It costs money and it costs lives and no civilization has an infinite amount of either. So when you fight, you conserve. You use and equip only as much as you have to, never more."
He stared at us grimly. "Is any of this getting through? Do any of you understand what I'm trying to tell you? You don't have these shiny new bodies and pretty new weapons because we want to give you an unfair advantage. You have these bodies and weapons because they are the absolute minimum that will allow you to fight and survive out there. We don't want to give you these bodies, you dipshits. It's just that if we didn't, the human race would already be extinct."
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I haven't seen her again, but I know I will. Soon. Soon enough.
In ferner Zukunft wird der interstellare Krieg gegen Alien-Invasionen mit scheinbar bizarren Mitteln gefu?hrt: Fu?r die Verteidigung der Kolonien weit draußen im All werden nur alte Menschen rekrutiert. So wie John Perry, der mit 75 noch einmal einen neuen Anfang machen will. Doch bald erfa?hrt er das wohlgehu?tete Geheimnis: Das Bewusstsein der Rekruten wird in ju?ngere Klone ihrer selbst u?bertragen, die als unerscho?pfliches Kanonenfutter in den Kampf geschickt werden...
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