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Earths military machine can transform elderly recruits, restoring their lost youth. The old mans war saga starts with this first chapter or the opening novel of the series. Heinlein, scalzis astonishingly proficient first novel reads like an original work by the late grand masterthe novels tone is right on target, toosentimentality balanced by hardheaded calculation, knowitall smugness moderated by innocent wonder. The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. The colonial defense forces takes only retirees who have decades of experience, knowledge and skill and then uses a highly classified procedure to make them young again so they can go out and fight for humanitys survival.
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