Children No More - Book Review

Children No More - by Mark L. Van Name - is the latest book in the Jon and Lobo series.

Jon and Lobo is a SF series on a not very near future where humanity is spread across the galaxy, mostly through instantaneous travel gates (in a very deus-ex machine way they come from nowhere - I hope it will be explained eventually) . The main character is the only man with nanobots in his cells, who is an ex-soldier with a heart of gold that keeps getting into trouble, and his sentient ship, Lobo, which is one of a kind, again because of nanobots experiments.

This book is in many ways a manifesto against using childrens in war - the plot is based on Jon saving ex-children soldiers so that they can be just children. Several characters from the first two books appear, and there are a lot of flashbacks about Jon's own experience as a child soldier, in Pinkelponker, which were hinted at on the other books but never fully fleshed out.

Overall, pretty good even though there was a lot less action than usual. It's a little frustating how little use the whole nanobots things get on the books, and particularly on this one, however...

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