I decided to give Kloos a chance, and once I got beyond the slightly slow beginning (to be honest, he came *this* close to losing me), I couldn’t put it down. I always feel they’re stuffy and oddly out of date no matter how far into the future they’re set. Sci-fi isn’t really my preferred genre, never mind military sci-fi. There was a pretty comprehensive review on io9.com (which I didn’t read entirely due to spoilers), but when they compared Kloos to Scalzi, I knew it needed to be picked up. Least of all, new recruit Andrew Grayson. Wars are being fought in space and on land by the North American Commonwealth military against the Sino-Russian Collective, and nobody sees the Lankies coming. “Nobody gives a shit about welfare rats.” page 3 Overpopulation leads to the usual troubles: poverty, government sanctioned slums aka PRC’s (Public Residence Clusters) sprawl across major metropolitan centers, throngs of people existing on government issued rations. Life on Earth has gone to hell in a hand basket.
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