The Light Brigade (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781481447966)

NAMED BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY AS A BEST BOOK OF 2019

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 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.

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.

A 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.

Author: Kameron Hurley
ISBN-10: 1481447963
ISBN-13: 9781481447966
Publisher: S&s/Saga Press
Language: English
Published: 03/19/2019
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.40d
Award: Hugo Award - Finalist

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 02/01/2019 pg. 67
Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2019 pg. 41
Publishers Weekly 11/26/2018
Booklist 01/01/2019 pg. 51
Shelf Awareness 03/26/2019
BookPage 03/01/2019