The Last Colony
- 320
- Pages
- about 6 h
- Reading time
- Seiun Award for Best Translated Long Work
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Our view
The third Old Man’s War novel returns to John Perry as narrator and adds a larger dose of politics to the action, which some readers count as a gain. Scalzi’s quick, funny dialogue is intact, and the fighting never crowds out the characters. Some find the plotting more heavy-handed than before. It is a light, clever read, best taken after the first two volumes.
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About the book
The Last Colony is a science fiction novel by American writer John Scalzi, the third set in his Old Man's War universe. It was a finalist for a 2008 Hugo Award in the Best Novel category. Like the first part of the series, it is a first-person narrative told by John Perry, the main character of Old Man's War.
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Where the score comes from
The sources average 8.0 across 862 ratings. With that many, the reader vote carries 85% of the weight and the score stays at 8.0 — the Science fiction average of 7.8 barely moves it.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.4 | 68 | 8% |
| Google Books | 9.0 | 18 | 2% |
| Hardcover | 8.1 | 776 | 90% |
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It has 320 pages — shorter than 76% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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