John Scalzi

John Scalzi wrote the sci-fi classic Old Man’s War and the laugh-out-loud (if only there was a abbreviation for that!)

Scalzi

Funny, thoughtful, and packed with action, Old Man's War is a great read and one of Scalzi's seminal works.

a military science fiction novel in the tradition of Starship Troopers, ) the novel by the late author, Robert A. Heinlein, which was first published in hardcover in December 1959 (after being serialized in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction

Old Man's War is a military science fiction novel in the tradition of Starship Troopers, the novel by the late author, Robert A. Heinlein, which was first published in hardcover in December 1959 (after being serialized in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction).

Joe Haldeman

Wait, Joe Haldeman wrote Old Man’s War?

a Robert Heinlein-style novel about soldiers fighting to secure a foothold for humanity across the galaxy

Old Man’s War is a Robert Heinlein-style novel about soldiers fighting to secure a foothold for humanity across the galaxy.

Orson Scott Card

Rather, The Old Man's War is about one man's jaunt through space blasting intelligent alien life forms before they devour entire human colonies and Orson Scott Card's ethical struggle with the horror and inhumanity of war.

on John Michael Scalzi II's website

Second novel Old Man’s War appeared on John Michael Scalzi II's website in 2002, where his website was read by editor Patrick Nielsen Hayden, who subsequently purchased his website for Tor.

Duc de Nevers

Authorship of the sonnet that triggered the war was attributed to the Duc de Nevers.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

wars was first penned by English author Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1839 for English author Edward Bulwer-Lytton's play Richelieu; Or the Conspiracy.

AUTHOR BIO the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer

AUTHOR BIO's debut Old Man's War won AUTHOR BIO the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.

Ken MacLeod

Yesterday I did an appreciation of The Name of the Wind over at Tor.com as part of their write-up of the Ten Best SF/F Books of the Decade series; today, the very awesome Ken MacLeod does a write-up of Old Man’s War.

an updating of some of the most distinctive traits of Robert A Heinlein's work

Old Man's War, the first volume in what would become the Old Man's War or Green Soldier Universe sequence, is very consciously an updating of some of the most distinctive traits of Robert A Heinlein's work, most obviously Starship Troopers (October-November 1959 F&SF as 'Starship Soldier'; 1959).

Herodotus , the first true historian

Herodotus, the first true historian, wrote of the war in which a band of small Greek city-states defended the Greeks's freedom against the assault of the vast and mighty Persian Empire.

the story of John Perry, seventy-five-year- old widower who enlisted with Goldfinger's wife ten years prior to the beginning of our story

So, OLD MAN'S WAR is the story of John Perry, seventy-five-year- old widower who enlisted with Goldfinger's wife ten years prior to the beginning of our story.

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When Thucydides set out to compose Thucydides's work, the writing of warfare was already a notable tradition launched with a bang by the legendary Homer about three centuries earlier...

Maharishi Ved Vyasa

a war was written by one of the greatest sages of mankind, Maharishi Ved Vyasa, who was already centered.

one of Ta Nehasi Coates's favorite recent books

Old Man’s War was one of Ta Nehasi Coates's favorite recent books.

by Gary Scott Thompson and

Man of War is written by Gary Scott Thompson (known for the Fast and Furious film franchise) and the Fast and Furious film franchise will be produced by Logothetis together with former Disney executive and co-producer of Paul Blart:

in first person perspective by John Perry, an aging ad copy writer

Old Man's War is narrated in first person perspective by John Perry, an aging ad copy writer.