Old Man's War

作者：JohnScalzi

出版社：TorBooks

出版年：2005-12-27

页数：320

定价：USD12.95

装帧：Paperback

丛书：OldMan'sWarSeries

ISBN：9780765315243

内容简介
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John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife’s grave. Then he joined the army. The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scarce—and alien races willing to fight us for them are common. So: we fight. To defend Earth, and to stake our own claim to planetary real estate. Far from Earth, the war has been going on for decades: brutal, bloody, unyielding. Earth itself is a backwater. The bulk of humanity’s resources are in the hands of the Colonial Defense Force. Everybody knows that when you reach retirement age, you can join the CDF. They don’t want young people; they want people who carry the knowledge and skills of decades of living. You’ll be taken off Earth and never allowed to return. You’ll serve two years at the front. And if you survive, you’ll be given a generous homestead stake of your own, on one of our hard-won colony planets. John Perry is taking that deal. He has only the vaguest idea what to expect. Because the actual fight, light-years from home, is far, far harder than he can imagine—and what he will become is far stranger.

作者简介
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约翰·斯卡尔齐，美国当代著名科幻作家和博客作家，1969年5月10日出生，毕业于芝加哥大学，现居俄亥俄州。

2005年，斯卡尔齐的处女作《垂暮之战》由美国著名科幻出版社Tor出版，随即获该年度雨果奖最佳长篇提名，斯卡尔齐本人也因此荣膺 2006年度约翰·W·坎贝尔奖最佳新人奖。

受到获奖的鼓励，斯卡尔齐又创作了《垂暮之战》的三部续作——《幽灵旅》《最后的殖民地》和《佐伊的故事》，且均受好评，其中，《最后的殖民地》获得2008年雨果奖最佳长篇提名。

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