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Scalzi the human division6/20/2023 The aliens too function with socioethical and political mores replicating Machiavelli, authoritarians or third-rate dictators. Human characters communicate in dialogue laced with 21st-century humor and irony, even among the CDF troopers (repurposed 75-year-old earthlings) equipped with "BrainPals," neural-computer implants. Starships use "skip drive" to outwit Einsteinian physics and "skip drones" to communicate across light years. Other players pop up repeatedly, including two CDF colonels, a hard-line ambassador and a female starship captain. Harry Wilson, CDF technician and Earth native, who finds himself wherever the action is, whether that’s in space disarming a missile trap set for the Utche, an alien species with whom the Colonial Union is negotiating, or caring for an ambassador’s dog whose survival figures into an alien civil war. Scalzi rockets characters through assorted space adventures, with repeated appearances by Lt. Earth’s billions had provided Colonial Defense Forces troopers and outpost settlers, which allowed the Colonial Union to cope with the machinations of the Conclave, an alliance of alien (nonhuman) species. Blame John Perry and Jane Sagan, Roanoke Colony leaders. The Colonial Union keeps peace among the universe’s humans, albeit one fractured after Earth’s withdrawal. Scalzi ( Redshirts, 2012, etc.) offers his fifth in the Old Man’s War series.
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