Old Man's War - John Scalzi
Apr. 4th, 2006 06:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
handsliveOf the five novels nominated for Hugo awards for 2006, I've only read two now. Spin was one; this is the other. I've had a link to Accelerando in my bookmarks since Charlie Strauss put it up online, but still haven't gotten around to it.
Anyway, I think that Spin was better than this book from a Hugo nominee sort of perspective. If I were eligible to vote, I'd probably vote for Spin instead. But this was a perfectly fine and highly entertaining read. I understand there's another book in the same universe forthcoming and I'll make a point of picking it up.
I picked this up to read over the weekend that we went out to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
purplejavatroll 's mom's place because I felt like I needed a break from the collection of essays by Seamus Heaney I'm currently working through. What really blows me away is that this was a first novel.
Hmmm...I find it hard to believe those three paragraphs are at all related. Oh, well.
Anyway, I think that Spin was better than this book from a Hugo nominee sort of perspective. If I were eligible to vote, I'd probably vote for Spin instead. But this was a perfectly fine and highly entertaining read. I understand there's another book in the same universe forthcoming and I'll make a point of picking it up.
I picked this up to read over the weekend that we went out to
purplejavatroll 's mom's place because I felt like I needed a break from the collection of essays by Seamus Heaney I'm currently working through. What really blows me away is that this was a first novel.Hmmm...I find it hard to believe those three paragraphs are at all related. Oh, well.
