Recommendation Friday

Hi everyone! Taylor here with another Recommendation Friday!

This week I’m recommending one of my favorite books that I’ve read this year, Old Man’s War by John Scalzi.

John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife’s grave. Then he joined the army.

The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scarce– and alien races willing to fight us for them are common. So: we fight. To defend Earth, and to stake our own claim to planetary real estate. Far from Earth, the war has been going on for decades: brutal, bloody, unyielding.

Earth itself is a backwater. The bulk of humanity’s resources are in the hands of the Colonial Defense Force. Everybody knows that when you reach retirement age, you can join the CDF. They don’t want young people; they want people who carry the knowledge and skills of decades of living. You’ll be taken off Earth and never allowed to return. You’ll serve two years at the front. And if you survive, you’ll be given a generous homestead stake of your own, on one of our hard-won colony planets.

John Perry is taking that deal. He has only the vaguest idea what to expect. Because the actual fight, light-years from home, is far, far harder than he can imagine–and what he will become is far stranger.

I was recommended this book by @Book.sf on Instagram and I’m so glad he told me to this it.

This book is so amazingly well written. Everything was described in a way that I could picture easily, despite how complex and futuristic everything was. I really enjoyed this book. It was fun and interesting but at the same time, there was a lot about this book that was very thought provoking. I read the whole book in a couple of days because I just couldn’t put it down. . If you like science fiction, space, or just a really well written, imaginative story, I highly recommend Old Man’s War. This is definitely one of my new favorites.