![]() ![]() Volunteers sign letters of intent and provide DNA samples at age 65, which John and his now-deceased wife Kathy had done ten years prior to the beginning of the story. ![]() John Perry, a 75-year-old retired advertising writer, joins the Colonial Defense Forces who protect human interplanetary colonists. Because the actual fight, light-years from home, is far, far harder than he can imagine-and what he will become is far stranger. He has only the vaguest idea what to expect. And if you survive, you'll be given a generous homestead stake of your own, on one of our hard-won colony planets. ![]() You'll be taken off Earth and never allowed to return. They don't want young people they want people who carry the knowledge and skills of decades of living. Everybody knows that when you reach retirement age, you can join the CDF. The bulk of humanity's resources are in the hands of the Colonial Defense Force. Far from Earth, the war has been going on for decades: brutal, bloody, unyielding.Įarth itself is a backwater. To defend Earth, and to stake our own claim to planetary real estate. The bad news is that planets fit to live on are scarce- and alien races willing to fight us for them are common. The good news is that humanity finally made it into interstellar space. John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. ![]()
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