I really like John Scalzi. He has this amazing talent to get me to read books that are usually far out of my ordinary interests (I say I don't like military sf. We ignore my obsession with Miles Vorkosigan when I say this).
He's also funny. Not in a Douglas Adams sense, but in the sense that his characters have great senses of humor and he is brilliant at the subtle deadpan. Okay, so maybe a little like Douglas Adams.
But there's a deeply interesting story at the heart of the book and an adventurous attempt, on Scalzi's part to portray both age and was through as clear a gaze as possible.
What can I say; I really liked this book and was more than a bit impressed by it. Well done, where's the next one?