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On 12/4/2025 12:33 AM, Mike Van Pelt wrote:

In article <10egihb$agf7$2@dont-email.me>, BCFD 36 <bcfd36@cruzio.com> wrote:

I started this series awhile back. I recently picked it up again. I am
enjoying it, except he keeps killing off characters I like. Not as bad

I tried it way back when, but the premise just didn't work
for me.

When you get old and gray and arthritic, the Galactics say
if you go to work for them, they will rejuvinate you, and
make you immortal.

That's the sales pitch.

Thing is, no one ... not one person ... who took them up on
this offer has ever been seen or heard from again. Ever.

Even though the Galactics are human, for all anyone could
possibly know, It's A Cookbook(TM).

Of course, it isn't, but what they do is clone a copy of you,
upload a copy of your mind into the copy, and euthanize you.

I thought that the Colonial Defense Forces had a consciousness transfer
device ?

Lynn

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On 11/5/2025 4:19 PM, BCFD 36 wrote:

I started this series awhile back. I recently picked it up again. I am enjoying it, except he keeps killing off characters I like. Not as bad
as in Game of Thrones, but enough to be annoying.

Oh no, you are causing me to move "Old Man's War" to my reread stack.
And I have already reread it once so I may have to move it to my six
star list.

I ordered the trade paperback of book 7 last night. It sounds like that
there will not be a MMPB coming out as usual so I went ahead and paid
the toll. It will come out Aug 11, 2026. Maybe I will have reread the
entire series by then.
https://www.amazon.com/Shattering-Peace-Old-Mans-Book/dp/1250348447

Lynn

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