Old Man's War - John Scalzi - 2005 First Edition Hardback

Acceptable: Please see the images for more details. This has the marks and scars of a former library book. Cover artist: Donato Giancola This title is a part of our Science Fiction Summer Reads List! Here's a link to snag a brand new paperback version through our affiliate partnership with Bookshop.org. Publisher blurb: "John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. First he visited his wife's grave. Then he joined the army.The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scarce-and aliens willing to fight for them are common. The universe, it turns out, is a hostile place.So: we fight. To defend Earth (a target for our new enemies, should we let them get close enough) and to stake our own claim to planetary real estate. Far from Earth, the war has gone on for decades: brutal, bloody, unyielding.Earth itself is a backwater. The bulk of humanity's resources are in the hands of the Colonial Defense Force, which shie