• Re: Old Man's War

    From Lynn McGuire@lynnmcguire5@gmail.com to rec.arts.sf.written on Tue Dec 16 01:26:16 2025
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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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  • From Lynn McGuire@lynnmcguire5@gmail.com to rec.arts.sf.written on Tue Dec 16 14:43:49 2025
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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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