Glorious Red Chutney
Mar 01, 2017•48 min
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Episode description
This episode is all about Old Man’s War, a military science fiction novel by John Scalzi. Aqiul Colombowala joins Pranay Parab to talk about the book and why everyone should read it.
Old Man’s War by John Scalzi
- The state of the world
- Why it’s called Old Man’s War
- Stereotypical characters
- How it feels to read it for the second time
- Fresh take on military SF
- Not too serious, which works for military SF
- Tyrannical humans
- Various alien species
- Covandu
- Lilliputian species
- Moral debates
- Two-metre tall skyscrapers
- Consu
- Advanced species
- Unclean aliens
- Overkill nature
- Rraey
- Conspiracy with Consu
- Attacking humans
- Skip Drive
- Don’t judge alien species by their looks
- Total lack of diplomacy
- Covandu
- Ghost Brigades
- Love life scenes
- Moral issues for Ghost Brigades
- Colonial Defence Force and its advanced nature
- Information drought back on Earth
- First-person narrative
- Star hops and time dilation
- Social commentary on the impact of war
- Loopholes in the plot and what could’ve been better
Music: Popular Potpourri and Path Complete from PPPPPP by Magnus “Souleye” Pålsson.
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