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The Light Brigade

By: Kameron Hurley, Jackie Sanders
Narrated by: Cara Gee
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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. Military Science Fiction Space Opera Time Travel Fiction War Solider Interstellar Solar System
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"Narrator Cara Gee perfectly evokes the weary drawl of a battle-hardened soldier in this intricately constructed science fiction audiobook. The listener follows Dietz (first name unknown) through her mandatory training in the Corporate Corps. She learns to follow orders, to kill, and to cross the galaxy as a beam of light in order to fight the enemy that attacked her planet and destroyed her family. Gee's surface-level portrayal of Dietz seems flat and unemotional—but in a nuanced way that hints at deep anger and confusion. Gee gets more to chew on as the war progresses and Dietz becomes frightened about what's really going on. Jackie Sanders aces her small role as a corporate interrogator who tries to break Dietz."
Thought-provoking Concept • Complex Time Travel • Engaging Narration • Engaging Military Sci-fi • Unique Premise

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I was really blown away by this book, both the story and performance were phenomenal! If you like mind-bending time travel stories, military scifi and philosophical pondering that manages to be both thought-provoking and thrilling, this is very much the read for you... highly recommended!

Riveting from Start to Finish

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With political undertones and philosophical waxings this is a high energy story about time travel and freewill.

a serious yet entertaining story of time travel

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This book was phenomenal from start to finish, great pace, complex but not overly confusing. if you like a time-bender set in a militaristic dystopian future, this will be just the thing. Narration was first class as well, Cara realty nails it!

One of the best of 2019

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This book has everything... interesting characters, amazing world building, with cinematic action scenes all wrapped up inside a time travel plot. Worth the credit.

Amazing!!!

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-Spoilers- The book is very good. Great writing, the narrator does a great job at encapsulating tone. The story is fascinating but it left me wanting more. The pace of the book was generally good, a solid feat when working with time travel. -spoilers start- That being said I wish we got a bit more of Deet’s life when it was “slowed down” similar to the pacing of training. I think I would have given the story 5 stars if we had a bit more at the end. Since the first interview I wanted to understand who this version of Deets was, but we really aren’t given the arc that leads to her final action of saving her loved ones, what was the pow camp like? How did it differ from the life she knew? Why did she choose to go from “saving the world/stopping the cycle” to just protecting her loved ones? I think those questions could have been answered in another 6 chapters. I thibk the ending dragged down this book unfortunately.

Good book. Wish it stuck the landing

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