The Light Brigade
Kameron Hurley
Mar 2019 · Simon and Schuster · 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.
“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.
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 sci...
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killi mimes
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April 10, 2019
socialist propaganda thinly veiled as a scifi! dont waste your money! the format has huge corporations treating humans just as the communists did before and after ww2! NOTHING FAILS LIKE SOCIALISM
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Eze Styrker
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September 21, 2025
Read it with an open mind.
About the author
Kameron Hurley is the Hugo Award–winning author of The Light Brigade, The Stars Are Legion, the Worldbreaker Saga, and other titles. In addition to winning the Locus Award, Kitschy Award, and Sydney J. Bounds Award, her work has also been a finalist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Nebula Award, Dragon Award, Gemmell Morningstar Award, and Ohio Book Award. Her short fiction has appeared in Popular Science, Lightspeed, and numerous anthologies. Hurley has also written for The Atlantic, Writer's Digest, Entertainment Weekly, The Village Voice, LA Weekly, Bitch, and Locus Magazine. Find her online at KameronHurley.com.
Kameron Hurley is the Hugo Award–winning author of The Light Brigade, The Stars Are Legion, the Worldbreaker Saga, and other titles. In addition to winning the Locus Award, Kitschy Award, and Sydney J. Bounds Award, her work has also been a finalist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Nebula Awar...
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