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The Ghost Brigades.(Brief article)(Book review)

Publishers Weekly

| January 23, 2006 | (Hide copyright information)Copyright

The Ghost Brigades John Scalzi. Tor, $23.95 (320p) ISBN 0-765-31502-5

This fast-paced interstellar military drama doesn't quite meet the high expectations set by its predecessor, Scalzi's acclaimed Old Man's War (2005), but it comes impressively close. Shifting focus from seniors in young bodies to infants in old bodies, it follows Jared Dirac, a superhuman soldier, from unusual birth to ambiguous death. Dirac is an altered clone of Charles Boutin, a military scientist who betrayed humankind to alien aggressors, and the Colonial …

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