How? By breaking them down into atoms and turning them into light itself. In this future, technology allows people to travel at the speed of light.

Promise me you'll strive for some other future than the one we gave you.' But promise me that when you come of age you'll ask questions. That will keep you safe for now, my little mouse. Grueling training prepares soldiers like Dietz for battle against the independent settlers of Mars, who made millions of people - including Dietz's family - disappear from São Paolo.

It's fast-paced and compelling, it's mind-bendy and weird, and Dietz has such an interesting and endearing narrative voice that I had to know what happened.īasically, it's the future and corporate giants rule, not only on a ruined Earth, but in space as well.

People and aliens fighting wars just doesn't seem that exciting to me. I read this book because it came highly recommended, but I have to say I would not usually gravitate towards something called a 'space opera'. War was all about the annihilation of truth. 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.Ī worthy successor to classic stories like Downbelow Station, Starship Troopers, and The Forever War, The Light Brigade is award-winning author Kameron Hurley’s gritty time-bending take on the future of war.I realized I might never know what really happened here. 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. Sword and Laser Goodreads Group Discussion of The Light Brigade The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley įrom the Hugo Award–winning author of The Stars Are Legion comes a brand-new 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. How/Why was this book chosen: Tom Chose it The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley was the 130th official Sword and Laser Book Club selection.

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