The Last Colony
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A raça humana tenta expandir seus territórios, mas se depara com um problema: os planetas habitáveis são poucos e a competição por eles é enorme. Após anos sem expandir suas fronteiras, a União Colonial toma a controversa decisão de iniciar uma nova colônia, e a tarefa de administrá-la é entregue a dois condecorados heróis de guerra: John Perry e Jane Sagan. Inicialmente, o maior desafio é conciliar os interesses de grupos com origens diversas. Entretanto, logo os heróis se veem isolados em um planeta que não é o que parece e descobrem que são apenas peças no tabuleiro de uma disputa que envolve o destino de toda a humanidade. Na série Guerra do Velho, best-seller do New York Times, o premiado autor John Scalzi traz ao leitor uma história épica de conquista galáctica e exploração interplanetária, com personagens cativantes, intrigas políticas bem construídas e sem nunca perder o bom humor.
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6 primary books26 released books#3 in Old Man's War
Old Man's War is a 26-book series with 6 primary works first released in 2005 with contributions by John Scalzi.
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3.5
The Last Colony, the third book in John Scalzi???s OLD MAN???S WAR series, returns us to the perspective of John Perry, the ???old man??? hero of the first novel in the series, Old Man???s War. John Perry is only mentioned in the second novel, The Ghost Brigades, which told the story of how the cyborg Special Forces soldiers found and defeated the scientist Charles Boutin, a traitor to the Colonial Union. On that mission they also found Zoe, Boutin???s young daughter. Zoe has been adopted by Jane Sagan and John Perry and the little family has been farming on one of Earth???s colonies where John and Jane are the leaders.
Life is easy for them until the Colonial Union comes calling ??? they need leaders for a new colonization effort and John and Jane have been selected. This new colony (named Roanoke???. hmmmm??? I think I wouldn???t have signed up for that) will be comprised of people from several different human worlds and John and Jane are responsible for its success. However, the Colonial Union hasn???t been completely honest with them. It will be a lot more dangerous than the members of Roanoke have been led to believe. They are being played as political pawns and they don???t realize it until it???s too late. And it???s not just Roanoke that???s in danger, but the entire human race... Read More:
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This book continues the trend of fleshing out the universe of Old Man's War and the ending opens up opportunities that make me excited for the rest of the books in the series but I kind of found this one to be slower and not as fun as the other two books. I'll probably continue the rest of the series in the future though.
