OLD MAN’S WAR

        War is for the old. A life time of experience apparently can just begin to prepare you for what you might find enlisting in the Colonial Defense Force. John Perry is going to find that out the hard way. At 75 he’s seen a lot, his wife pass away in front of him, his son become mayor and his body slowly begin the process of decline. But is it inevitable? John and a good many of Earth’s senior citizens have found a new life waiting for them and it’s nothing like they could have ever imagined. A new body is just the tip of the iceberg because the galaxy that the homebodies on Earth know so little about is a vicious place. There are four trillion aliens inhabiting our galaxy and a good many are in direct competition with humanity for habitable worlds and these are just the ones we know about. Seventy-Five percent of the CDF recruits will die in the years of service that they have promised. But they will die so that humanity can continue to exist among the stars.