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Old 10-29-2010, 12:52 PM   #181
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Originally Posted by drofgnal View Post
I don't know if it qualifies as hard Scifi, but yesterday I started Old Man's War by John Scalzi. Nice read, somewhat humorous. I'm really enjoying it a lot.
It's not quite hard SF, but certainly has enough advanced technology. You can put on on the same shelf with Heinlein's _Starship Troopers_ and Joe Haldeman's _The Forever War_, though it has some novel twists on the premise.

It's also the first book of a series, and don't assume you know what's going on. Scalzi has a knack for not going where you think he's going, and creating a world that isn't quite what you think it is.

He's doing other things at the moment, but there could be other stories set in that universe down the road.
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