#old man's war

[thelastofthebookworms]

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[haveyoureadthisscifibook]

vote yes if you have finished the entire book.

vote no if you have not finished the entire book.

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[bean-writes]

Now taking ficlet/one-shot requests!

Comment your request (any fandom, genre, theme, whatever)!

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[spockvarietyhour]

Love the lil touch of Chuck reading The Martian General's Daughter. It comes up in Universe too with a random airman reading Old Man's War in Subversion:

[lordguppi]

Meh :)

[desdasiwrites]

"The universe is a big place. Maybe we're not in the best neighborhood."

– John Scalzi, Old Man's War

[lukecoalman]

I did this drawing after reading Old Man's War by John Scalzi. I liked imagining the CDF as Kirby like space opera soldiers. With their green skin and unitards. Just finished reading Ghost Brigades. The books are a ton of fun.

[archiethinking]

More on the first book of Old Man's War.

The book as a whole is bittersweet. Its like a literary tug-of-war. You get a piece of story, a little excitement. You progress the protag's story. But for every little thing you take, the book eventually tugs back. A death here, an emotional exposé there. The story isn't all too positive, but it ends on a hopeful note. The protag, having gone through several wars and having lost many of his friends, has finally gotten to a point of stability. The raw force of the ocean waves calms to a pleasant breeze--and even though you know there will be more sadness and tragedy in the next one, you are relieved to see him having evolved to a place with promising avenues, with a person he loves out there somewhere, on special secret missions he doesn't know much about, not for the lack of trying.

[hunterbadger]

JOHN SCALZI is sitting at a desk, writing THE HUMAN DIVISION. He has a table of possible events to happen next in front of him and two ten-sided dice. There are three high-stakes moments left to fill in across the manuscript. As always, the dice will determine their fates.

He rolls. 27. Orbit jump in combat unitard. He smiles. He's been wanting to do that one, it seems fun and it might be a nice moment with Dani and Harry.

He rolls again. 27. Oh. Well, if the dice say so, he can do it from another perspective at that spot in the narrative, cool little writing challenge.

He takes a deep breath, rolls again. 27. JOHN SCALZI sighs a little and starts to sweat...

[quotent-potables]

With this book we've reached the end of our journeys with John Perry and Jane Sagan. I like to think they go on. But they go on without us.

— Acknowledgements to The Last Colony, book 3 of the Old Man's War universe, by John Scalzi

[allskywalkerswhine]

in fics where luke gets plopped into the prequels i want every jedi within ten metres of him to think hes the weirdest jedi theyve ever seen. he has negative lightsaber form. he doesnt know what a kata is. he handstands when he meditates. his solution to sith is to try and have a chat. hes a political radical who keeps suggesting revolution. you ask him what the jedi code is and he says "kindness and compassion and helping those in need :) ". you ask how he used the force like that and he says some shit about how you are a luminous being limited only by your mind. the councils authority is just a suggestion. he is somehow the new favourite of both qui gon and yoda

[livingfandomly]

Walker? Sir? Mr. Actor?

Jokes aside. That look? That anger? Percy finally having enough and being pissed off with a God who doesn’t care about his children, insulted his friends, ruined their quest and wants to start an unnecessary war where he has nothing to lose? But most importantly… Percy literally QUAKING with unchecked rage for a God who came in the way of him saving his mom?

[spockvarietyhour]

Scalzi served as Creative Consultant on SGU so it's only fair someone would carry his book.

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"FARNHAM CAMP: Reserve Army Inspected," Montreal Star. August 10, 1943. Page 6. --- Major-Gen. B. W. Browne, DSO, MC, Director-General of the Reserve Army, is pictured above watching some of "his boys" digging defences in the heavily wooded bush at Farnham Camp yesterday. In the group, from left to right, are: Lieut-Col. H. D. Rolland, O.C. 2nd (R) Battalion, Canadian Grenadier Guards: Maj-Gen. Browne, Brigadier K. M. Perry, D.S.O.. assistant-Director-General of the Reserve Army, and other officers.

The Director-General is seen here closely following the actions of Tpr. Oscar Dubue, "A" Squadron 6th Hussars, during fieldcraft practice as Capt. D. R. Patton, of the Hussars, looks on.

[desdasiwrites]

– John Scalzi, Old Man's War 

[slushy-sash]

eepy little general

(based on this cute message from him, he just like me fr)