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Gangsta: Raid on a Cristiano Safe House

I read Gangsta., Vol. 4

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I Reads You Review: OLD MAN'S WAR

OLD MAN'S WAR
TOR/Tom Doherty Associates – @torbooks

AUTHOR: John Scalzi
ISBN: 978-0765309402; hardcover (2005)
320pp, B&W, $. U.S.

Old Man's War is the debut novel from blogger and science fiction writer, John Scalzi.  The book was first published in 2005 (although there may have been a Science Fiction Book Club edition of the book published in late 2004).  It was nominated for one of science fiction literature's top honors, the Hugo Award for Best Novel, in 2006.

Old Man's War is a military science fiction novel in the tradition of Starship Troopers, the novel by the late author, Robert A. Heinlein, which was first published in hardcover in December 1959 (after being serialized in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction).  Old Man's War is the story of an old man who enlists in the human interstellar military force, which wages a constant war against aliens for the planets that humans colonize and the ones humans want to colonize.

Old Man's War is told as a first-person narrative by the novel's central character, John Nicholas Perry, a retired advertising writer.  Perry does two things on his 75th birthday:  (1) visit his wife, Kathy's grave and (2) join the army.  Ten years earlier, Perry and his wife had signed a letter of intent to join the Colonial Defense Forces.

You see, the good news about the future is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space.  The bad news is that planets fit to live on (or support complex life) are scarce.  The other races (or aliens) willing to fight for these scare planets are common, so the universe is a hostile place.  The Colonial Defense Forces (CDF) protects human interplanetary colonists.

Now, Perry takes the space elevator to CDF station.  It is the first step to training to fight in battles in ways that are totally different from how anyone or any military has ever fought on earth.  He travels to new planets, where he must sometimes kill the inhabitants, or kill other races that also want to colonize those planets.  Perry meets new people and new kinds of people and discovers things that are just new.  But before a 75-year-old man can fight for the CDF, he has to undergo a shocking change.

I don't like Old Man's War.  I love it; yes, “love” is the word that I want to use.  There were times that I stopped reading this book for a few days just to delay getting to the last page.  Of course, I later learned that Old Man's War is the first in a book series.

Old Man's War does remind me of Starship Troopers, which I read some time in the past ten years – I can't remember exactly when.  So this book is what Starship Troopers is, a military science fiction novel that is also philosophical about war and about why we (humans) fight wars – against ourselves and others.  Apparently, Robert Heinlein originally wrote Starship Troopers as an installment in his line juvenile science fiction novels.  With that in mind, Old Man's War came across to me as a boy's adventure novel with the boy being an old man who gets to have a great big old adventure thanks to war and future science.

I do not want to dismiss Old Man's War by genre or thematically, but sometimes, it is good enough that a novel is a great story.  And Old Man's War is a great story, a rousing adventure that captures the imagination. I read a lot of science fiction until my early 20s.  Since then, I have read it sporadically, occasionally seeking out books generally considered science fiction and fantasy classics.  Old Man's War feels like classic science fiction – a great yarn about strange aliens and strange places and about the science that can take us to those aliens and places.

Old Man's War is eternally youthful and fresh.  It is an ode to the best of science fiction, but told in a new voice so that the familiar still seems captivating.

A+

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Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux


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Rosario+Vampire Season II: Alter Ego

I read Rosario+Vampire: Season II, Vol. 13

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Book Review: MORIARTY: A Novel

MORIARTY: A NOVEL
HARPERCOLLINS – @HarperCollins

AUTHOR: Anthony Horowitz
ISBN: 978-0-06-237718-0; hardcover (December 2014)
304pp, B&W, $26.99 U.S.

Moriarty: A Novel is a 2014 crime thriller and detective novel from Anthony Horowitz, the author of the modern Sherlock Holmes novel, The House of Silk.  Horowitz is also known for creating the acclaimed British television series, “Foyle's War.”  In Moriarty, two men chase a mysterious figure who is determined to be the new crime lord of London.

This novel is set in the world of Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary detective, Sherlock Holmes.  The story begins (more or less) in April 1891, after Sherlock Holmes and Professor James Moriarty take their infamous plunge down the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland.  That event apparently left both men dead, or so the public believes.

Known as “the Napoleon of Crime,” Moriarty only appeared in one Sherlock Holmes story written by Arthur Conan Doyle.  This story, “The Final Problem,” was first published in Strand Magazine in December 1893.  Since this was the story that depicted the incidents around the Reichenbach Falls, it was Moriarty's first and last appearance (as far as Doyle's writing goes).

In Moriarty, two men arrive in the Swiss village of Meiringen, near the Reichenbach Falls, to view the drowned corpse of Moriarty.  One of them is Inspector Athelney Jones, a detective from Scotland Yard.  [Jones is a character originally created by Doyle and first appeared in The Sign of Four (1890), Doyle's second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes.]  The other man is Frederick Chase, an American and a senior investigator with the Pinkerton Detective Agency.

Chase tells Jones that Moriarty's death has left a convenient vacancy in London's criminal underworld.  While there is no shortage of candidates to take Moriarty's place, the one most likely to succeed is a particularly fiendish criminal mastermind from America.  He is Clarence Devereux, and Chase has... um... chased him across the Atlantic Ocean.  The problem is that, other than a few loyal lieutenants, no one knows what Devereux looks like.

Athelney Jones, who is also a devoted student of Sherlock Holmes, joins forces Chase to find a man who may be more dangerous than Moriarty.  Their investigation takes them all over Victorian London – from elegant neighborhoods to squalid districts and even into shadowy streets and lairs.  Devereux proves to be an elusive and dangerous man, and while Jones and Chase are capable men, they must also content with the fearsome reputation of Moriarty, whose shadow hangs over their investigation.

Don't turn away, dear reader.  Moriarty: A Novel is not another pastiche of Arthur Conan Doyle-written Sherlock Holmes stories – well, not entirely.  The novel starts slow, but simmers during the four chapters that set up the central mystery.  Then, the narrative explodes in Chapter 5 at Café Royal in London.  From that point, I chased this story through a series of big reveals, before contending with the shocking last third of the novel.

Yes, Moriarty is a good read.  That said, it's too clever or maybe a little too cute.  I think some of the story's surprises change the novel.  It is mostly an engrossing crime thriller; then, it becomes something that is, at best, a re-imagining of Holmes or, at worse, a pastiche of Doyle's Holmes stories.  I won't say that some surprises ruin the novel.  Rather, the novel seems to be one thing, before the author, Anthony Horowitz, changes its fundamental nature.

So, most of the novel is exceptionally entertaining.  The rest of it strikes an odd note.  Still, I want to see where Horowitz takes his ideas and concepts, so I recommend that you read this now for what may very well come later.  Fans of Sherlock Holmes and of Victorian mysteries will want to find Moriarty: A Novel.

B

Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux


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