Those who do not qualify for corps citizenship are poverty-stricken ‘ghouls’, and the Martians are alleged communists, hungry to dismantle everything that hardworking corps citizens have built. The setting is extremely dystopian, with control of Earth’s citizens split between six giant corporations.
Our protagonist, Dietz, is an army grunt in Earth’s crusade against the Martians, who are responsible for blinking São Paulo out of existence. At its heart, this is a novel about the futile brutality of war. Kameron Hurley portrays a far-flung tomorrow, complete with time travel and interplanetary teleportation, but these futuristic elements do not overshadow the narrative’s human struggles. The Light Brigade is a standalone military sci-fi novel, with emphasis on military. After much umming and ahhing, I’ve settled on four stars, rounded up from 3.75.
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