Right now I am reading Old Man's War. This book has several compelling aspects to me. One it is a sci-fi book, and two I like how it sort of has a flip side on war. I find it very interesting that all of the soldiers in the army that fights the other intelligent species are Old Men. Although at first glance they wouldn't look that way. They have all had their mind and concience transplanted from their old wrinkly real bodies, into genetically in mproved and stronger slightly green bodies. Another thing I have been thinking thinking about in my book lately is, what is it saying about justice in our world?
Well, a major theme in the plot of the story is that John, and some of his friends are noticing that some of the aliens that they are destroying aren't evil at all, that they stand no chance against them. The soldiers are starting to feel bad because they know that some of the battles that they are going out to fight, are just wrong. I think this says something about justice. Sometimes there just is no justice, sometimes you just don't get justice, and the other team wins. Just like that. I think that this is definatley a big downside to how the world works.
I think the idea that you can be powerless to stop something bad that's going on is scary. It must be scary to know that you are less powerful then your enemies, and that they can do whatever they want, and get away with it. This element in the world is more common in Old Man's War than in our world though, because in the book, there is no real government. Atleast that has the real power to serve Justice.
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