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The Light Brigade

By: Kameron Hurley
Narrated by: Cara Gee, Jackie Sanders
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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. 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.

©2019 Kameron Hurley (P)2019 Simon & Schuster
Military Science Fiction Space Opera Time Travel Space Fiction Solider War Interstellar Corporate
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Good but the ending left me wanting

Really good book fantastic sound quality and performance just wish the ending was less of ambiguous

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Very good

Cara Gee is outstanding in this.
Story was good and kept me interested. Really like the format of narrative story-telling set apart with the occasional "interview"-format. Lots of characters though, it was hard to keep track of some of the less prominent ones, but the ones important to the main character wasnt and I guess that's more important.

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wouldn't bother with this.

Great narration. Great sound quality. the story was a massive let down. all over the place and felt like a missed opertunity.

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Editor needed!

A very talented writer let down by a poor editor to allow a great story to become somewhat confused and convoluted. This novel could have been up there with The Forever War but as is its still worth a read.

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Excellent

Absolutely loved this. The performances and production are great and the story is incredibly gripping. Will be reading more by Hurley - really pleased to have discovered such an excellent author!

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mind bending time travel and gritty sci fi warfare

Amazingly coherent, engrossing dystopian story that had me hooked from the start. Kameron Hurley is firing on all cylinders here.

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What a ride!

Amazing.
Let yourself get confused with the protagonist in this brutal, emotional and intelligent story.

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Starts ok, ends horribly

It's literally just another Hollywood movie about time travel. There is nothing novel, nothing unusual, just a mashup of events like any other time travel story, so it makes you think it may be interesting and have something new and fresh for you. But at the very last chapters you will find out that it's just more of the same.

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