The Light Brigade (Unabridged) The Light Brigade (Unabridged)

The Light Brigade (Unabridged‪)‬

    • 4.3 • 26 Ratings
    • $19.99

Publisher Description

NAMED BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY AS A BEST BOOK OF 2019

Passionately brutal, fierce, and furious in voice and pace. It’s a particularly cinematic experience of war, Full Metal Jacket meets Edge of Tomorrow. —The New York Times

From the Hugo Award­­–winning author of The Stars Are Legion comes a 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.

GENRE
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
NARRATOR
CG
Cara Gee
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
10:22
hr min
RELEASED
2019
March 19
PUBLISHER
Simon & Schuster Audio
SIZE
481.3
MB

Customer Reviews

Anati ,

Cara Gee is everything

Cara Gee has a voice of gold. I would probably listen to anything she was reading. Oye belta lowda!

*N8DGr8* ,

Bad

Constant unnecessary swearing and just grossness. Had a whole scene with everyone talking to each other during bouts of diarrhea. The author took pains to make every paragraph about sex, drinking, killing, etc. No depth to the characters… just bravado and tropes. I hope that I can find something worthy of my purchase among the actual science fiction elements and plot, but I don’t know how much more I can stand.

As someone who loves science fiction and wants to write science fiction, this is the antithesis of what I want it to be.

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