
“The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley is damn near perfect… By turns harrowing and gorgeous, this novel is a machine of precision plot, character, prose, and theme, working together to become one of the best military sci-fi novels I’ve read, period.” Is Dietz really experiencing the war differently, or is it combat madness? Trying to survive with sanity intact, Dietz is ready to become a hero - or maybe even a villain. And the bad drops tell a story of war that’s not what the corporate brass want the soldiers to think it is. Those who survive learn to stick to the mission brief - no matter what happens during combat.ĭietz, a fresh recruit in the infantry, begins to experience combat drops which don’t sync up with the platoon’s. Everyone is changed by what the corps must do. Grunts in the corporate corps get broken into light, travelling from interplanetary battlefronts. The Light Brigade: it’s what soldiers fighting the war against Mars call the ones who come back…different. Soldiers are broken into light and sent to the frontline of a brutal interplanetary war, in this brilliant military SF from the Hugo Award-winning author of The Stars Are Legion.įile Under: Science Fiction Description – John Scalzi, bestselling author of Old Man’s War Shortlisted for GoodReads Choice Awards’ Best Science Fiction 2019
