When I signed up after São Paulo, me and my friends were shocked that the recruiting center wasn’t packed. How many other corporate soldiers signed up for money, or voting rights, or to clear a debt, or to afford good housing, or to qualify for a job in one of the big towers?
I wanted to be the light: the savior, the hero, sure.īut more than that, I wanted the enemy obliterated. The enemy had eaten my family and the life I once knew a past I now remember in jerky stutter-stops, like an old satellite image interrupted by a hurricane. Even bleeding-heart socialist drones who play paladin can take an oath of vengeance to justify violence. All my heroes stayed on the path of light, no matter how dark it got. I signed up because of what they did to São Paulo. And that’s what I’d tell myself, when I was alone in the dark, cut off from my platoon, the sky full of blistering red fire, too hot to send an evac unit, and a new kid was squealing and dying on the field. It’s what I told every CO, and there were. That’s what I told my first squad leader. I wanted to be counted among the heroes who gave us this better world. 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. 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. 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. They said the war would turn us into light. It’s a particularly cinematic experience of war, Full Metal Jacket meets Edge of Tomorrow.” -The New York Timesįrom 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. “ Passionately brutal, fierce, and furious in voice and pace. NAMED BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY AS A BEST BOOK OF 2019
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