The Ghost Brigades

por John Scalzi

Libro electrónico, 356 páginas

Idioma English

Publicado el 31 de marzo de 2007 por Tor.

ISBN:: 978-1-4299-1472-7
Goodreads:: 8934762

(3 reseñas)

The Ghost Brigades are the Special Forces of the Colonial Defense Forces, elite troops created from the DNA of the dead and turned into the perfect soldiers for the CDF's toughest operations. They're young, they're fast and strong, and they're totally without normal human qualms.

The universe is a dangerous place for humanity—and it's about to become far more dangerous. Three races that humans have clashed with before have allied to halt our expansion into space. Their linchpin: the turncoat military scientist Charles Boutin, who knows the CDF's biggest military secrets. To prevail, the CDF must find out why Boutin did what he did.

Jared Dirac is the only human who can provide answers -- a superhuman hybrid, created from Boutin's DNA, Jared's brain should be able to access Boutin's electronic memories. But when the memory transplant appears to fail, Jared is given to the Ghost Brigades.

At first, Jared …

At first, Jared is a perfect soldier, but as Boutin's memories slowly surface, Jared begins to intuit the reason's for Boutin's betrayal. As Jared desperately hunts for his "father," he must also come to grips with his own choices. Time is running out: The alliance is preparing its offensive, and some of them plan worse things than humanity's mere military defeat…

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4 ediciones

G. Deyke reseñó The Ghost Brigades de John Scalzi (Old Man's War Series, #2)

Easily the best book in the series

3 estrellas

Possibly because it's the only one featuring an underdog, and actually - to an extent - addressing the incredibly White American Male viewpoint that pervades the series (as, in fact, it does a lot of Scalzi's writing). This book was interesting, but still ultimately centrist, and of course the premise of the series - which this book can't really help, being a sequal - is still kind of weird and nonsensical. I guess The Power of Colonialism is so great that it is an important goal in and of itself, not even because resources or population exploring or whatever else: all of these are explicitly mentioned as being unimportant. War for war's sake, colonialism for colonialism's sake. It's not even about expansion.

Again, though: this book was interesting and had a better perspective, so I can't complain all too much.

Dah DJM reseñó The Ghost Brigades de John Scalzi (Old Man's War, #2)

Where's John Perry?

3 estrellas

Found as EN "boxed set" and read the trilogy (with Old Man's War & The Last Colony) in less than a week (nights mainly). Less entertaining than #1 IMHO, but "needed" to jump into #3

Candid_Chameleon reseñó The Ghost Brigades de John Scalzi (Old Man's War Series, #2)

Much better than the first in the series

4 estrellas

What the first book lacked in character buildings, the sequel makes up for with room to spare. The world building expanded some, answering questions the first book left me asking. Looking forward to the next in the series.

Temas

Cloning -- Fiction.
Space warfare -- Fiction.
Genetic engineering -- Fiction.
Special forces (Military science) -- Fiction.