{"id":1554,"date":"2005-03-12T20:50:27","date_gmt":"2005-03-12T20:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1554.html"},"modified":"2006-12-30T16:27:14","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T16:27:14","slug":"john-scalzi-old-mans-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/2005\/03\/12\/john-scalzi-old-mans-war\/","title":{"rendered":"John Scalzi &#8211; <i>Old Man&#8217;s War<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Old Man&#8217;s War<\/i> is a refreshingly old-skool space opera, with echoes of Heinlein&#8217;s <i>Starship Troopers<\/i> and Haldeman&#8217;s <i>The Forever War<\/i>.  In a hostile universe, humans are forced to fight for every inch of territory.  Their soldiers:  geriatrics who are promised a new life in the military.  It follows a fairly standard recruitment-training-fighting-reflection story arc, but that doesn&#8217;t detract from the sheer energy and fun bursting off the pages.  It may not have the same emotional depth as <i>The Forever War<\/i>, but it plays with some cool ideas, raises some interesting questions, and has restored my faith in science fiction as a genre to read for <em>entertaininment<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old Man&#8217;s War is a refreshingly old-skool space opera, with echoes of Heinlein&#8217;s Starship Troopers and Haldeman&#8217;s The Forever War. In a hostile universe, humans are forced to fight for every inch of territory. Their soldiers: geriatrics who are promised a new life in the military. It follows a fairly standard recruitment-training-fighting-reflection story arc, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[1142],"class_list":["post-1554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books_4_stars","tag-legendshome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}