The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley

The Light Brigade

by Kameron Hurley

The Light Brigade: it’s what soldiers fighting the war against Mars call the ones who come back…different. Grunts in the corporate corps get broken into light, travelling from interplanetary battlefronts. Everyone is changed by what the corps must do. Those who survive learn to stick to the mission brief — no matter what happens during combat. 

Dietz, a fresh recruit in the infantry, begins to experience combat drops which don’t sync up with the platoon’s. And the bad drops tell a story of war that’s not what the corporate brass want the soldiers to think it is. 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. In war it’s hard to tell the difference. 

File Under: Science Fiction [ Star Troopers | Hostile Takeover | Out of Time | Honour the Charge ]

Reviewed by Alina on

5 of 5 stars

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Mind...blown!

Great "Starship Troopers" vibes, both the grit and blood of fighting scenes and killing, as well as thinking over the philosophy of it all, pondering freedom and free-will, government and power. It's all new however and it's more; the tone, the idea, the premises of this story which just keeps building upon itself towards the purely brilliant ending...

I did not expect any of it.

Enjoyed every word of it.

Made me ask myself the type of questions that give simple people like myself headaches, and it was darn good headaches, let me tell you... It's so plausible and smartly created it made me afraid, we might be heading towards such a world in our not so distant future. Would I want to live in it? Would I be able to survive? I don't know... But this book? Yeah, you need to pick this up, this is a story to be heard.

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