Terms of Enlistment (Frontlines)
The year is 2108, and the North American Commonwealth is bursting at the seams. For welfare rats like Andrew Grayson, there are only two ways out of the crime-ridden and filthy welfare tenements, where you're restricted to two thousand calories of badly flavored soy every day:You can hope to win...
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The year is 2108, and the North American Commonwealth is bursting at the seams. For welfare rats like Andrew Grayson, there are only two ways out of the crime-ridden and filthy welfare tenements, where you're restricted to two thousand calories of badly flavored soy every day:You can hope to win the lottery and draw a ticket on a colony ship settling off-world, or you can join the service.With the colony lottery a pipe dream, Andrew chooses to enlist in the armed forces for a shot at real food, a retirement bonus, and maybe a ticket off Earth. But as he starts a career of supposed privilege, he soon learns that the good food and decent health care come at a steep priceā¦and that the settled galaxy holds far greater dangers than military bureaucrats or the gangs that rule the slums.The debut novel from Marko Kloos, Terms of Enlistment is a new addition to the great military sci-fi tradition of Robert Heinlein, Joe Haldeman, and John Scalzi.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781477809785 (1477809783)
ASIN: 1477809783
Publish date: January 28th 2014
Publisher: 47north
Pages no: 346
Edition language: English
Series: Frontlines (#1)
This was a cool find. Think Scalzi-spacebattle-scyfy, only more character driven. Future, aliens, believable science, Earth moving to anarchy, government spending all their money on space ships and colonization, military life, fighting to save humanity, learning who the real enemy is. Also like ...
Great story. Great characters. Great syfy. Reads fast. Excellent use of 1st person. Loved it. Fans of Scalzi should feel right at home. *Too many f-bombs. Who can find me some really cool military syfy with out all the language? It must be out there! The Value of a Star: Ratings Explained
Sometimes I was a bit hesitant about whether I liked this book or not but in the end I have to say that I liked it. It is the first in a series so I guess a lot depends on how the series develops but for now I think would say that it is a good start.The book centers around Andrew Grayson who is a so...
It was not a big surprise that I enjoyed this military sci fi novel as much as I did as this is my favorite genre but it was good enough to make my favorite list of this year and that comes as a little surprising as I has not read anything by this author previously. I found myself reading well past ...
It was not a big surprise that I enjoyed this military sci fi novel as much as I did as this is my favorite genre but it was good enough to make my favorite list of this year and that comes as a little surprising as I has not read anything by this author previously. I found myself reading well past ...