BrainPal (TM)
Just finished reading two Sci Fi books and about to start the 3rd, which is amazing given my double vision… but I’m hooked.
The books are…
- OLD MAN’S WAR
- THE GHOST BRIGADES
- THE LAST COLONY (…still to read)
*All by JOHN SCALZI
When you turn 75, you can join the Colonial Union Army, which only accepts soldiers from wealthy nations, the poor and over populated nations provide colonists.
They use your DNA to grow a young body for you, enhanced with Alien abilities (like cats eyes) and transfer your “mind” to it. The mind has a marble sized computer inserted in the centre of the brain, its called a BRAIN PAL.
You can use it to surf the net, send photos, email, talk to others with a brain pal, but its best use comes to helping them win wars.
The blood is replaced by SMART BLOOD ™ and is made up of nano bots. The guns they use are tuned to the BrainPal so only that soldier can use em, ammo is made up of a block of metal, nanites… so ammo is made on the fly.
THESE BOOKS ARE BRILLIANT!!!!!!! Its sort of like STARSHIP TROOPERS meets….. hell, nothing I can think of.
I love the idea of a BRAIN PAL and I seriously want one! I hope the make a movie out of these books.
OH, and if you are wondering, the GHOST BRIGADES are made up of the DNA of the ones that died before they turned 75, but have “clean blank” brains.
I’d give these books 10 out of 10….. and well worth the headaches I got from reading them.
