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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me"><h1>Julio Biason .Me 4.3</h1></a>
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<p class="lead">Old school dev living in a 2.0 dev world</p>
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<h1 class="post-title">The Last Colony (Old Man's War #3) - John Scalzi</h1>
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2016-04-23
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/books/">#books</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/john-scalzi/">#john scalzi</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/scifi/">#scifi</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/old-man-s-war/">#old man's war</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/stars-5/">#stars:5</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/published-2007/">#published:2007</a>
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<p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/88071.The_Last_Colony">GoodReads Summary</a>:
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Retired from his fighting days, John Perry is now village ombudsman for a
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human colony on distant Huckleberry. With his wife, former Special Forces
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warrior Jane Sagan, he farms several acres, adjudicates local disputes, and
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enjoys watching his adopted daughter grow up.</p>
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<span id="continue-reading"></span><div>
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★★★★★
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<p>What would happen if genetic soldiers, after returning to their normal selves,
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had to fight a different fight?</p>
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<p>John Perry and Jane Sagan, now being the parents of Zoë Boutin, have to manage
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and save a colony in a time when every other race in the universe decided to
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fight the human expansion.</p>
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<p>In some ways, it felt like the boring parts of <em>Children of the Mind</em>, with
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annoying descriptions of a different planet, with its different fauna and
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flora and whatnot. I mean, for something more thoughtful, it gets boring
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pretty quick.</p>
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<p>Also, there is this weird "let me show how John is smart, because he has
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almost 100 years" thingy. Every time the colony gets into trouble, John comes
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with a solution. It's not Jane, the intelligence soldier that solves this,
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'cause she's only 10 or so years old. Actually, Jane logistics is rarely
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brought into play, so she mostly sits on the background like a deus ex machina
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due her past. And John never gets into a corner he can't escape.</p>
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<p>Although these things are annoying, it doesn't bring the whole story to the
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ground: yup, the flora and fauna are boring, but they are a couple of pages;
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yup, Jane logistics is mostly through under the rug, but we have John; John
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never gets into a corner he can't escape or doesn't have a solution, either by
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intelligence or politics, but at least the story doesn't stall in those
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situations (well, because the situations don't exists, anyway).</p>
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<p>As usual, a good, fast paced sci-fi book, like the others from Scalzi. </p>
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