Light Brigade

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Kameron Hurley: Light Brigade (2019, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers)

368 pages

English language

Published Aug. 8, 2019 by Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers.

ISBN:
978-1-4814-4798-0
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From 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.

They said the war would turn us into light. I wanted to be counted among the heroes who gave us this better world.

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 busted down into light to travel to and from interplanetary battlefronts. Everyone is changed by what the corps must do in order to break them down into light. Those who survive learn to stick to the mission brief—no matter what actually happens during combat.

Dietz, a fresh recruit in the infantry, begins to experience combat drops that don’t sync up with the platoon’s. And Dietz’s …

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  • Fiction, science fiction, space opera
  • Terrorism, fiction