Recommendations from our site
“I read the blurb for The Light Brigade and thought, ‘Wow, this is a very unique concept.’ The premise of The Light Brigade is that Earth is at war with Mars, and instead of physically shipping soldiers, we are breaking them down into light, into photons, and we’re teleporting them to different locations. That was the speculative hook. The world-building hook was that instead of nations, we now have corporations, and for folks who want to have housing and health care, that is all tied to different corporations. I’m so glad that we currently exist in the timeline where I’m going to learn whether I’m team Amazon or team Tesla, when it comes down to it… Even though I read the novel in 2022, it felt very pertinent to the times. And it felt like a very new, very modern take on military sci fi.” Read more...
The Best Military Sci Fi Books
A.D. Sui, Novelist
“The central science fictional concept here isn’t a new super-weapon, spaceship, super-soldier, implacable alien race or similar, but rather the means of delivering soldiers to the battlefield near-instantaneously as light transmissions, which is a fascinating twist of the ‘damn I wish I’d thought of that’ variety. It’s a fiendishly clever concept because it opens up all kinds of plotlines simply by following the logic of the technology embedded at its centre. What does it do your humanity to be embedded suddenly into new warzones again and again? What if you’re transported to the wrong place, or you suspect you’re being sent to places other than the one detailed in your mission? People are talking about this book in the same way they do about absolute classic works of science fiction.” Read more...
The Best Science Fiction of 2020
Tom Hunter, Journalist
