Old Man's Warriors

I feel stupid to only just now realize that the soldiers in Old Man's War were, in fact, green army men.

X)

you mean like those in "Toy Story" and the ones I used as a kid in my card forts before I destroyed the lot with my elastic band/paper wad super weapon :)

Read the description of the book and a couple of the reviews...sounds like an addition to the must read list.

Yup, one and the same. It's a minor part of the book but I think it must have been a little bit of a joke. It's kind of Scalzi's style.

I'd definitely recommend it and its sequels. It's one of the top "characteristic works" for this group:
http://www.librarything.com/groups/sciencefictionfans/zeitgeist

Beat out only by The Forever War, with which it shares a few aspects.

>1 brightcopy: did you read Scalzi's serialized The Human Division?

Not yet.