If you want to eat at the corporate store, you support the war.Īnyway, you don’t even know what any of this shit is they’re pumping you full of. You don’t opt-out of this war anymore, not like you could in the early days. They don’t even wait to see if you wash out, because even if you wash out, they still need you. They inject you with a lot of stuff in training. We jumped first during our six-week orientation, which the CO still calls basic training, even though there hasn’t been a public army in almost a century. It’s like having sex, or getting into a fight. But it’s hard to understand a thing when all you know about it is what people say about it. I guess the Blink gave me an idea of the tech involved in what we were expected to do, as corporate soldiers. What happened to all those people doesn’t compare to what I have to do. When you saw what the aliens did to that city without even sending an army there, you knew you had to do something, even if it was dangerous. I didn’t believe we could turn people into light when I signed up for service after the San Paulo Blink. It’s funny how things work out.īut I’ve been doing this long enough now to know what I really am. I always wanted to be on the side of light. Transforming us into light is the fastest way to travel from one front to another, and there are many fronts, now. Series: The Tales of Gorlen Vizenfirthe.Series: From the Lost Travelers’ Tour Guide.People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction!.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. 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 it is. 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.
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