SO I SHOULD HAVE BEEN grading Administrative Law exams last night, but I made the mistake of starting John Scalzi’s new book Ghost Brigades yesterday afternoon, got totally sucked in, and read until I finished it about midnight last night.

As that might suggest, it’s really good. It’s only sort of a sequel to Old Man’s War, though it takes place in the same world and with some of the same characters. Perhaps for that reason, it doesn’t suffer from the slowed pace and inconclusive action that many second-of-series books do: It’s a self-contained story, and you could read it and enjoy it even if you hadn’t read Old Man’s War, though you’d miss out on some of the background. At any rate, I liked it very much, and I think that anyone who enjoyed the first book will like this one just as much.

Various people have asked for other science-fiction recommendations, but I don’t have time to post that now. I’ll try to do something up later.