Twelve kinds of taste
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Space warfare, Life on other planets in fiction, Older men, Science Fiction
John Scalzi channels Robert Heinlein (including a wry sense of humor) in a novel about a future Earth engaged in an interstellar war against more advanced species. Citizens volunteer for the Colonial Defense Forces after retirement, in exchange for which they have their consciousness transferred into a young body, cloned from their DNA but enhanced.
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Epic, effortless, plot-driven and resolved.
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On Open Library, 144 have read it and 185 want to.
“I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday.”
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