Masa itibaren Şendabad, Doğu Azerbaycan Eyaleti, İran
I thorough;y enojoyed this book. It has all the usual tropes for a good military sci-fi (many nods to Starship Troopers and its ilk) but Scalzi also gives the genre his own twist. His older chacaters are believable and they remain quintessentially older and more beleivable even with "young nubile" bodies. Similarly his younger characters are beleivably young, not irritatingly precocious :) Many sci-fi military writers (John Ringo for example) have been in the military - I don't think Scalzi ever has. As such his story raises questions on what it's like for average people to beomes soldiers and go through the Hell that war can be. These are questions that ex-military writers don't ask. These are questions that many beleive should not be ask. As a non-military person myself, I found I could identify more with Scalzi's characters than I can with (again) John Ringo's characters. It will be interesting to see how well any of this translates to screen. I've bought the Kindle versions of Ghost Brigades and am starting on that next - because I want to know of this universe Scalzi has crafted :)