Enlisting in the army on his seventy-fifth birthday, John Perry joins an interstellar war between Earth and alien enemies who would stake claims on the few existing inhabitable planets, unaware that the conflict involves much more than he understands.
year: 2005
call number/section: 1000
subjects: life on other planets, fiction, space colonies, space warfare, older men, soldiers, science fiction, war fiction, fiction
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Scalzi, John
Enlisting in the army on his seventy-fifth birthday, John Perry joins an interstellar war between Earth and alien enemies who would stake claims on the few existing inhabitable planets, unaware that the conflict involves much more than he understands.
Schools: 1
Scalzi, John
Tor (2005)
To defend Earth from violent alien races, the Colonial Defense Forces recruits the world's elderly, hoping to create an intellectual army that will outwit the aliens and preserve life on Earth.
Schools: 1