Great start to a new "series". Looking forward to each episode as it's released. Novel (get it) idea on producing a book. ( )

Classic Scalzi - gonna be great to read a new short book by him every week. ( )

I enjoyed this a lot. Set in the world of Old Man's War I would recommend not reading it until you have read the others. It is a great first episode and I love that he decided to give us a complete story. I am looking forward to the next episode. ( )

I know what I want for Christmas/Easter/my birthday/every gift giving holiday out in the known universe - I want a BrainPal. If turning a hue of green is a side effect, have at it. Just think how many books I could read and inner thoughts I could transmit... wait scratch that last part out.

Speaking of books- this one is the quintessential ragtag team that steps up to the plate as last minute replacements and takes the team a couple steps close to the finale (I keep thinking of loveable Keanu Reeves in "The Replacements".2000 movie. Well of course that was endearing). I very quickly wanted the Clarke to succeed in their last minute mission. And yes, everyone on board b-teamed their way into my heart. What can I say, I'm still a sucker for the underdog story. You hear that B-team! I'm your biggest fan -doesn't echo as much if you're not standing on a mountain top by hey, point stands.

Scalzi has this knack for dialogue, shall we say the art of creating cohesive conversation that feels not just natural but you're never tempted to skip over swathes of chattering to get to the action because it more often happens while in conversation. Case in point, the unexpected Polk Pod, space, shrapnel and explosion. All of this in the middle of a simple conversation weighing the odds of survival and calculating how much air to use up and laughing would take up to much air and ...boom, everything explodes. That was executed with finesse.

Honestly, there are so many gems to be dug up in conversation. Take the conversation between CDF's Field Tech Wilson, Hart Schmidt and Ambassador Abumwe, the tail end of which is just gold:

“He’d better be,” Abumwe said. “Because, Lieutenant Wilson, the
warning I gave to my staff goes double for you. If you fail, this mission fails, even if my half goes well. Which means I will have failed because of you. I may be low on the diplomatic totem pole, but I am sufficiently high enough on it that when I push you, you will die from the fall.” She
looked over to Schmidt. “And he’ll kill you when he lands.”

{...more facts being spit like a sick beat on a Migos track by Abumwe here and Wilson reciprocating}

“I’ll do my best,” Wilson said.
“Your best got you stationed on the Clarke,” Abumwe said. “Do
better than that.”

I love the consistency of John Scalzi's writing and it's ability to yank you from your couch in your room in your house/apartment in your city, in your country, on your continent on planet earth and then shove you headfirst into the world of the ailing Colonial Union and the rising Conclave and all else in the Old Man's War Universe and you feel like you belong there and that you've always been a member of one of the frigate ships. ( )

This one was a quickie, apparently a teaser for the full book The Human Division. ( )