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The fourth installment of the Old Man’s War series focuses on the same events of the third book, The Last Colony. This time it uses the perspective of the little girl Zoe, the adopted daughter of John Perry and Jane Sagan.
She is quite brilliant and clever. As a teenager, she is experimenting with love, fear, and adventures for the first time.
And you might find many important events from the previous book.
From the same universe of books of Old Man’s War (), John Scalzi tells a story of a human colony on another planet. It’s a new colony, so mostly tells the hard conditions and situations that they have to face.
They are far from home. And contact with the former homes is prohibited. Most do not know why. Just focus on creating the initial conditions for bigger and definitive immigration waves. Wild animals, inhospitable weather, and a lack of resources and technologies make everything a very dire situation.
You follow the story of John Perry, the same protagonist from the original novel. This story takes place many years after the events of the second book in the series, The Ghost Brigade. Perry and his wife Sagan are now trying to have a normal civilian life with their new daughter Zoe.
The Inkas (in fact, the people is called Quechua and Inka refers only to the king) is mysterious and fascinating civilization. Risen and fallen in matter of one century.
Peru urban architecture is essentially Spanish colonial style.
Portuguese tilings, Azulejos, in their full richness. Fascinating!
