11/14/2023 0 Comments The light brigade book![]() While Hurley doesn't address as directly as Weston Ochse has in his Grunt series and his Burning and Dead Sky books. Light Brigade does pay homage to those books but importantly Hurley updates the themes with a close look at the one issue that is tops on the minds of our modern solider. The ultimate classics are Starship Troopers and the Forever War which kinda serve opposite sides of the political divide. Military Science Fiction has a long history that Hurley tips her hat too. So if you are like me (and many of my readers come via the Dickheads podcast) and you like mind-bendy science fiction stop now and come back and read the rest of this review.īefore I get into spoilers let say this. I think the best way to enter this book is without any background. I knew nothing about the plot, managed to avoid even the notion that it was military sci-fi although the title told me that. I say this because I went into this book as cold as I could. Primary was the strength of Hurley's last book, but second, was a five-star review from Science Fiction Book Podcast's Luke Barrage who very rarely gives that high praise. When I wrote my review of that book three years ago I thought Hurley would have a tough time following that up. The Stars are Legion is a book that you enjoy while reading but it worms around in your brain every time you think of it. The world-building in that novel is some of the best I have read in decades of science fiction reading. The Stars are Legion is an incredible epic space opera with hints of body horror set in a post-men future matriarchy. ![]() Then a few years back Hurley released The Stars are Legion. I knew it was good just didn't push my books. I could tell it was really well written but for some reason, it felt too fantasy for me or something. ![]() I mean not that new my first time reading Hurley was her 2010 series kick-off God's War (Bel Dame Apocrypha, #1). As a well known old school reader, it is awesome to have found a bold new voice. This is my favorite but the last two have convinced me that Hurley is one of the most exciting voices working in modern Science Fiction. Welcome to the review of my third Kameron Hurley novel. Is Dietz really experiencing the war differently, or is it combat madness? Trying to untangle memory from mission brief and survive with sanity intact, Dietz is ready to become a hero-or maybe a villain in war it’s hard to tell the difference.Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Science Fiction (2019)ĭragon Award Nominee for Best Military Science Fiction or Fantasy Novel (2019) And Dietz’s bad drops tell a story of the war that’s not at all what the corporate brass want the soldiers to think is going on. Those who survive learn to stick to the mission brief-no matter what actually happens during combat.ĭietz, a fresh recruit in the infantry, begins to experience combat drops that don’t sync up with the platoon’s. Everyone is changed by what the corps must do in order to break them down into light. Grunts in the corporate corps get busted down into light to travel to and from interplanetary battlefronts. The Light Brigade: it’s what soldiers fighting the war against Mars call the ones who come back…different. I wanted to be counted among the heroes who gave us this better world. They said the war would turn us into light. It’s a particularly cinematic experience of war, Full Metal Jacket meets Edge of Tomorrow.” -The New York Timesįrom the Hugo Award–winning author of The Stars Are Legion comes a science fiction thriller about a futuristic war during which soldiers are broken down into light in order to get them to the front lines on Mars. “ Passionately brutal, fierce, and furious in voice and pace. ![]() NAMED BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY AS A BEST BOOK OF 2019 ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |