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The Ghost Brigades

By John Scalzi

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| Mass Market Paperback | 9780765354068

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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.Continue

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Review: The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi (Tor)

Title: The Ghost Brigades Author: John Scalzi Publisher: Tor Published: 01 February 2008 Review Copy If you have the mind of a traitor but not the body and want to know what he, Charles Boutin, knows what do you do? If you’re the Colonial Defence For ... (read full critics)

nextread published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

2 Reviews

very good sequel!!

A very good sequel to Old Man’s War, though it lacks the allure of the first book.

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Not as good as its predecessor Old Man's War, maybe because the focus moves from the discovery of a new reality by a single character to a more generic (although still character-based) war story, but still extremely good.
The only minor flaw I can think of is the fact that even alien species are des ... (continue)

Not as good as its predecessor Old Man's War, maybe because the focus moves from the discovery of a new reality by a single character to a more generic (although still character-based) war story, but still extremely good.
The only minor flaw I can think of is the fact that even alien species are descripted as if they were just differently-looking human beings, but maybe this happens because the narrator's focus remains anyway on the people from Earth and its colonies (and on the genetically evolved soldiers)...

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Marco Piva said on Mar 21, 2011 | Add your feedback