[ExI] Fifty pages into a fun sf novel

[John Grigg]

I have really enjoyed so far "The Light Brigade," by Kameron Hurley, which
is like a wonderful cross between Heinlein's "Starship Troopers" and
Gibson's "Neuromancer." An Earth ruled with an iron fist by huge
corporations is at war with mysterious Martian colonists, and they use
transporter beams to zap troops to Mars, for a never-ending war. The author
does a great job of showing just how much the corporations utterly grind
under their thumb the humans left on Earth. The characters are products of
classic tropes, and yet are three dimensional in how well they are fleshed
out. I definitely recommend the book.

John
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