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The Ghost Brigades
RRP: £4.46 Our Price: £1.74 (subject to change) Editorial Product Description The Ghost Brigades are the Special Forces of the Colonial Defense Forces, elite troops created from the DNA of the dead and turned into the perfect soldiers for the CDF's toughest operations. They're young, they're fast and strong, and they're totally without normal human qualms. The universe is a dangerous place for humanity--and it's about to become far more dangerous. Three races that humans have clashed with before have allied to halt our expansion into space. Their linchpin: the turncoat military scientist Charles Boutin, who knows the CDF's biggest military secrets. To prevail, the CDF must find out why Boutin did what he did. Jared Dirac is the only human who can provide answers -- a superhuman hybrid, created from Boutin's DNA, Jared's brain should be able to access Boutin's electronic memories. But when the memory transplant appears to fail, Jared is given to the Ghost Brigades. At first, Jared is a perfect soldier, but as Boutin's memories slowly surface, Jared begins to intuit the reason's for Boutin's betrayal. As Jared desperately hunts for his "father," he must also come to grips with his own choices. Time is running out: The alliance is preparing its offensive, and some of them plan worse things than humanity's mere military defeat... ReviewsA superb follow up to Old Man's War Review date: 2008-08-11 Rating: 10 out of 10 The Colonial Defense Force his discovered a traitor to humanity, Charles Boutin, who faked his own death and is working with three other alien races to bring a war against the CDF. However, the project Boutin was working on, a way to transfer a consciousness into a blank clone, has left an interesting development - during his research he stored a copy of his own consciousness in a system. Now that the CDF have found it they want to use it to get into the enemies mind and create a clone of Boutin. Although this is not a normal clone, they have used their advanced techniques to grow a body fit for the Ghost Brigades: the special forces of the CDF made up from the DNA of volunteers that died before starting duty. Fully grown and built for fighting the Ghost Brigades are a deadly force. The attempt at transferring the memories of Boutin into the clone appears to fail and he is given a new identity: Jared Dirac. Dirac is sent off to train with his fellow soldiers and assigned to the squad of Jane Sagan who is ordered to watch him in case of any developments. And developments there are which turn into a race against time to find Boutin before war breaks out. Following on from Old Man's War I doubted that The Ghost Brigades could live up to my expectations. After all, Old Man's War was a fantastic novel full of everything that is good about science fiction. Well, Ghost Brigades did live up to those expectations in a spectacular fashion, delivering more of what was good about OMW and expanding on it further. This time around the narrative is no longer in the first person allowing plenty of freedom for Scalzi to fill us in on the little bits of information we missed out on in OMW. This one is definitely more descriptive, with a few examples of info dumping, but Scalzi keeps the story well paced with few diversions. Although the humour found in OMW isn't as prevalent in Ghost Brigades, the times it does appear it is wholly suited to the situation and will bring a smile to your face, if not make you laugh out loud. This brings me to what I like about Scalzi's writing - it's down to Earth without all the usual in depth descriptions of other science fiction authors I read. These are books that you can pick up and enjoy at any point and will appeal to almost any science fiction fan. Ghost Brigades is yet another example of science fiction at its finest. An action packed, straight to the point novel, it will keep you turning those pages - and not just to find out what happens next, you'll want to read more of writing like this. I'm fully signed up to John Scalzi now and he can count me in as a fan for life, his stuff truly is exceptional. Great success for Scalzi Review date: 2008-03-04 Rating: 8 out of 10 Following on from Old Mans War this tale continues in the futuristic world dreamed up by John Scalzi. Whilst to many a sci-fi book relies upon the sheer strength of the science within, Scalzi likes to let his characters do the talking and with each protagonist allowing the sheer strength of character to push the tale futher along. That's his key strength to my mind, the way that he allows them to grow and decide their own destiny within the book. Well written, cracking characters and above all a story where the spirit of man demonstrates what it can truly accomplish when pushed to the limits. Good but grim at times. Review date: 2008-01-04 Rating: 8 out of 10 This is a worthy semi-sequel to Old Man's war. It is set in the same universe a few years on from the events of its predecessor, with some of its characters, such as Jane Sagan, reappearing. However the story is centred on the "Ghost Brigades", the human elite special forces. There are action sequences to please the die-hard fans, but there are also thoughtful and well woven into the story segments on what drives solders at the bleeding edge of combat. It also provides a better overview of the nature of its universe and hints at interesting developments in the third book. Overall the mood is a tad more sombre than the first work, but is still enjoyable. A tasty treat Review date: 2007-07-07 Rating: 10 out of 10 Well, two of three is great. I am so relieved. So many times you read the first book in a series, and that is great, but the next one sucks, and the rest get worse. Yes Anne Macaffry i am talking about you, and everything you have written for twenty years, you hack. I really liked "Old Mans War" and this one both builds upon its strengths, like good writting style and quality characters, and loses what i thought was its biggest flaw, its rushed ending. This book has a natural and balenced flow, it is full of intresting stuff and resolves itself at a decent pace at the end, which is why it gets 5 stars. I would say it is a more confident and better technical book than "OMW", and was left happy and wanting to see where the trilogy goes next. Where next is probebly self evedent. But this book did not lead on conventionaly from the first, and that was the best thing about it. There is precedent for Scalzi doing some thing unexpected. By introducing new characters and a diffrent narrative point of view the series got richer, and our knowlage of its universe fuller. I do not mean just more detail, but more perspective, we see the familiar and the new, places and people, through new eyes and they gain complexity and reality from the diffrence. I leave you with this last thought, i liked this enough to seriously consider getting the hardback of the next book. I have not done so though. Not yet anyhoo. enjoy Product Details/SpecificationsAuthors: J. Scalzi Recording label: Saint Martin's Press Inc. Manufacturer: Saint Martin's Press Inc. EAN: 9780765354068 Binding: Mass Market Paperback Dewey decimal number: 813.6 ISBN: 0765354063 Number of items: 1 Number of pages: 384 Publication date: 2007-06-29 Language: English (Original Language) Language: English (Unknown) Language: English (Published) Similar Products
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