The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley

[james_davis_nicoll]

Join the army and fight for truth and justice! Or rather, for the corporation's bottom line.

The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I think there's an allusion to Starship Troopers near the end of the book, in the sense that there's a revelation about the main character of TLB analogous to the revelation late in ST about the nature of its main character.

[jreynolds197]

It is shown that Dietz's squad gets five weeks of training before they're dropped in the shit. Later a new recruit mentions they got two weeks of training.

Dietz was recruited while things were going downhill, but hadn't reached desperation stages for the corporations. (Or at least, that was my impression). The last bits are really reminiscent of Volkssturm units. And are about as effective.

[james_davis_nicoll]

And of course the only reason things get so bad for the corporations is because the corporations make it so. They could have sat on their hands and been OK.

[roseembolism]

Yes but for a beautiful moment in time they created a lot of value for shareholders...

[jreynolds197]

That was a funny comic.

[ba_munronoe]

Somewhat reminiscent of another conflict currently ongoing...

[chrysostom]

Oh, I've been meaning to get around to this.

[jreynolds197]

You read! Is good!

[beamjockey]

"There is much the same sense that a collection of self-deluded, self-centered idiots is running society into the ground."


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