NAMED BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY AS A BEST BOOK OF 2019
From the Hugo Awardยญยญโwinning 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: itโs what soldiers fighting the war against Mars call the ones who come backโฆdifferent. 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 briefโno matter what actually happens during combat.
Dietz, a fresh recruit in the infantry, begins to experience combat drops that donโt sync up with the platoonโs. And Dietzโs bad drops tell a story of the war thatโs not at all what the corporate brass want the soldiers to think is going on.
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 heroโor maybe a villain; in war itโs hard to tell the difference.
A worthy successor to classic stories like Downbelow Station, Starship Troopers, and The Forever War, The Light Brigade is award-winning author Kameron Hurleyโs gritty time-bending take on the future of war.
Sciencefiction en fantasy