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the light brigade.
In the science fiction novel The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley, a recruit named Dietz enlists in a corporate military to fight a brutal war against Mars. Soldiers are deployed via a teleportation technology that breaks their bodies into light, but Dietz begins experiencing these "drops" out of chronological order, witnessing different versions of the future and the past. This non-linear perspective reveals that the interplanetary conflict is built on corporate lies, propaganda, and the systematic dehumanization of lower-class "ghouls." As Dietz moves through various points in time, they…
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