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PDF á BOOK Lines of Departure ê JOHNSCYCLINGDIARY ☆ [PDF / Epub] ☆ Lines of Departure By Marko Kloos – Johns-cycling-diary.co.uk Vicious interstellar conflict with an indestructible alien species Bloody civil war over the last habitable zones of the cosmos Political unrest militaristic police forces dire threS reassigned to a ship bound for a distant colony and packed with malcontents and troublemakers His most dangerous battle has just begunIn this seuel to the bestselling Terms of Enlistment a weary soldier must fight to prevent the downfall of his speciesor bear witness to humanity’s last fleeting breaths 5 StarsNo second book letdown here as Lines of Departure is even better than the first book in the series Starting off five years after the end of Terms of Enlistment Andrew Grayson is now a veteran having spent the last several years fighting against the North American Commonwealth’s human enemies as well as against the alien species that is devastating colony after colony Following his participation in a failed attack Andrew is sent to a remote colony with a vague mission along with a motley collection of troublemakers The uiet colony soon becomes the center of dramatic action that forces Andrew into making a decision that could change the rest of his career I loved the first book and this book is even better It has everything that made the first book good but this time we got some added depth to several key characters fixing one of my few complaints from the first book Pacing continues to be a strength There is lots of exciting action but even when there is nothing getting blown up or shot at the story never felt slow This series can be pretty cynical at times with a fairly bleak vision of humanity in the future Most of Earth overcrowded and natural resources depleted The majority of Earth’s population crammed into crime ridden housing clusters Constant fighting between various human alliances Despite all that things never felt overly grim There was still optimism and there were still characters that while cynical and world weary you could root for The book ends with a dramatic cliffhanger and I immediately went out and bought the next book

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H Defense Corps officer Andrew Grayson He dreams of dropping out of the service one day alongside his pilot girlfriend but as warfare consumes entire planets and conditions on Earth deteriorate he wonders if there will be anywhere left for them to goAfter surviving a disastrous spaceborne assault Grayson i If you're into stuff like this you can read the full reviewSubverted MilSF Lines of Departure by Marko KloosTruth to be told I was expecting the usual fodder when I started reading Kloos’ MilSF novel But I got something unexpected instead What made “Lines of Departure” interesting by the standards of most MilSF is its very systematic subversion of the tropes of military SF What starts out as a war story becomes political dissection of liberalism

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Lines of DepartureVicious interstellar conflict with an indestructible alien species Bloody civil war over the last habitable zones of the cosmos Political unrest militaristic police forces dire threats to the solar systemHumanity is on the ropes and after years of fighting a two front war with losing odds so is Commonwealt I'd been meaning to read this one for a while ever since Marko Kloos withdrew it from the Hugo nominations in '15 because of the Sad Puppy controversy I respected his decision It also turned me on to two great authors I probably never would have read otherwiseI never really considered myself a fan of Mil SF Not really But then I keep reading great Mil SFMarko Kloos has a style that's extremely readable It's clear as hell with a charming and droll voice It certainly helps considering the topicAliens with overwhelming and irresistible force loss of almost every human planetary colony in fighting among the nations of earth slow starvation and rebellion on earth and mass rebellion within the military itself Kinda sounds impossible and hopeless doesn't it?Yeah And to make things worse his higher ranking woman just proposed to him and the military has thrown up a ton of red tape barring their union and is keeping them apart Lousy sons of bitchesThis series has got to be some of the most purely enjoyable popcorn fiction Mil SF's I've ever read and this one in particular was like a deluge of all the shit hitting the fan at once rather than the previous novel which was like one damn thing after another The novel is simple in concept and simple in ideas It's survival and endless war from all sides Humanity can't get its shit together and the gallows humor is in full swingNow is this a Hugo worthy novel? I personally don't think so but my choice would not be strictly based on how much fun I had while reading it I'd also add the dimension of what it adds to the genre too It doesn't really add anything except as a fantastically good example of a very large sub genre I'm not saying it isn't great because it is great but its ideas have been done for decades and decadesI'm absolutely going to continue it because I am having a damn lot of fun with it though