http://mdbenoit.com/blog/blog/2006/04/26/currently-reading-14/ Reflections on reality in fiction and fiction in reality. Book Reviews, art, oddities, and comments on life from Science Fiction Mystery Author M. D. Benoit Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:37:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://mdbenoit.com/blog/blog/2006/04/26/currently-reading-14/comment-page-1/#comment-207 Life’s Weirder Than Fiction » Blog Archive » Currently Reading… Tue, 09 May 2006 12:24:09 +0000 http://mdbenoit.com/blog/2006/04/26/currently-reading-14/#comment-207 [...] Scalzi retains his smoothly flowing style in Old Man’s War, and there are traces of humour reminiscent of his first novel, Agent to the Stars, but the story is deeper, richer, more inquisitive than Agent. It could be qualified as a space opera but, just as Spin, it goes beyond the genre. Scalzi questions what makes us human, in a very different way. John Perry doesn’t have his own battered body, but retains his mind and his experiences. So the question appears: what makes us “us”? How is our humanity defined? Our personality? How much of it would we retain if we were to be reborn, or brought back from death? [...] [...] Scalzi retains his smoothly flowing style in Old Man’s War, and there are traces of humour reminiscent of his first novel, Agent to the Stars, but the story is deeper, richer, more inquisitive than Agent. It could be qualified as a space opera but, just as Spin, it goes beyond the genre. Scalzi questions what makes us human, in a very different way. John Perry doesn’t have his own battered body, but retains his mind and his experiences. So the question appears: what makes us “us”? How is our humanity defined? Our personality? How much of it would we retain if we were to be reborn, or brought back from death? [...]

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