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handslive ([personal profile] handslive) wrote2006-04-04 06:58 am
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Old Man's War - John Scalzi

Of 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] 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.