A military science fiction series following seventy-five-year-old John Perry, who enlists in the Colonial Defense Forces and receives a new engineered body to fight in humanity's brutal war for habitable planets. The series explores combat, identity, consciousness transfer, and the moral complexities of colonization with sharp humor and emotional intelligence, expanding into Ghost Brigades and beyond.
At age seventy-five, John Perry enlists in the Colonial Defense Forces who recruit only the elderly and receives a new engineered combat body, discovering that humanity is engaged in a brutal and constant war for habitable planets across the galaxy. Fast-paced, funny, and emotionally smart, the novel is an affectionate engagement with Heinlein's military science fiction tradition that also grapples seriously with mortality, identity, and the cost of war. A massively entertaining debut.
The Special Forces of the Colonial Defense Forces soldiers born from the DNA of the dead with no prior memories investigate a traitor scientist who has defected to alien enemies, while a new Special Forces soldier named Jared Dirac carries the traitor's consciousness and must reconcile two identities. A sequel that deepens the moral complexity of its predecessor's universe. Tightly plotted and emotionally engaging.