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The Light Brigade
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I love a good time-travel mind-twister. This would make an excellent movie, if Edge Of Tomorrow didn't already exist. Is there more money to be made out of this type of time-bending military sci-fi? I hope so!
When Dietz's whole family is wiped out in an attack on Sao Paulo by Martian colonists, she enlists to avenge her people. The world is now ran by several powerful corporations instead of governments, and Dietz works for one of them. New technology allows soldiers to be momentarily transported from one place to another (or a planet) at the speed of light. They are basically pulled apart down to particles, and then put back together. For some reason, Dietz gets reassembled into a wrong, random time line after each "drop", thus experiencing the war in a non-linear way.
The Light Brigade is essentially a novel about the brutality of war and corporate greed. Remove the time travel, and you've witnessed every point made in this book in real life, in real time. I prefer my books a tad deeper and heftier in worldbuilding, but this high-octane thriller is compulsively readable. I will give it another read to re-experience the intricacies of the time loop (the BEST part of every time-travel tale) for sure.
I expect this work will make a splash in SF world this year.
When Dietz's whole family is wiped out in an attack on Sao Paulo by Martian colonists, she enlists to avenge her people. The world is now ran by several powerful corporations instead of governments, and Dietz works for one of them. New technology allows soldiers to be momentarily transported from one place to another (or a planet) at the speed of light. They are basically pulled apart down to particles, and then put back together. For some reason, Dietz gets reassembled into a wrong, random time line after each "drop", thus experiencing the war in a non-linear way.
The Light Brigade is essentially a novel about the brutality of war and corporate greed. Remove the time travel, and you've witnessed every point made in this book in real life, in real time. I prefer my books a tad deeper and heftier in worldbuilding, but this high-octane thriller is compulsively readable. I will give it another read to re-experience the intricacies of the time loop (the BEST part of every time-travel tale) for sure.
I expect this work will make a splash in SF world this year.
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