Anna Levels Up

Yesterday, Anna went back to Cambridge, where she was awarded her M.A. We are all very pleased and proud. What more can I say?

The Last Colony

This is the final part of John Scalzi’s trilogy, at least so far, about the Colonial Union and its unending battles with a myriad alien races. I didn’t enjoy it as much as the other two, possibly because the focus is largely on political intrigue, which reminds me too much of the day job.

The protagonists of the earlier two novels are now married (to each other) and are manoeuvred into leading an expedition to found a new colony, which is then cut off from the rest of humanity. To reveal how and why this happens, who is responsible, and their motives would give away too much, so I shan’t explain. Suffice to say that the infighting amongst the colonists reveals a darker, seamier side to the Union – one that the soldier protagonists drafted from Earth have been largely unaware of, and which tests their faith in the Union’s principles and purpose.