Subscribe to Read
Sign up today to enjoy a complimentary trial and begin exploring the world of books! You have the freedom to cancel at your convenience.
Terms of Enlistment: Frontlines, Book 1
| Title | Terms of Enlistment: Frontlines, Book 1 |
| Writer | |
| Date | 2025-01-09 19:57:20 |
| Type | |
| Link | Listen Read |
Desciption
“There is nobody who does [military SF] better than Marko Kloos. His Frontlines series is a worthy successor to such classics as Starship Troopers, The Forever War, and We All Died at Breakaway Station.” - George R. R. MartinThe 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: 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 price...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 an addition to the great military sci-fi tradition of Robert Heinlein, Joe Haldeman, and John Scalzi.Revised edition: This edition of Terms of Enlistment includes editorial revisions. Read more
Review
Read all eight straight through. This is now my new finest military science fiction experience. Mr. Kloos got the military part right. He made some interesting adjustments as might be expected in a setting about 100 years from now (110+ from when he started volume one), and more through the series, mainly in rank names between services.Andrew Greyson grew as a soldier and as a person. I saw his perspective expand with his training and experience. I also saw how he felt about all of it. I saw his heart.The aliens. Fascinating. Implacable. Practically unbeatable. We learn about them veeerrry slowly. I wanted more and I wanted it faster. Mr. Kloos served it up piece by piece. He is the master storyteller told it the right way.His worldbuilding. Could be just what we’ll have in a hundred years. The other worlds were just right also. How much culture do you expect from colony just 20 years along. The aliens? Nicely done.Eight volumes. I think there was one typo. Maybe one logical error. Might be a record.Finally, I read the last 15 minutes through tears.
