![]() ![]() … A lot of my friend cohorts back in high school joined the military, and it sort of mirrors some of their journeys. ![]() Basically, the whole oeuvre is you take a soldier through when they’re bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, and you go through the actual process of war and how they change. … This was very much a homage to military science fiction. Kameron Hurley: Dietz is your run-of-the-mill grunt in the military who signed up to get back at folks who had destroyed the city where they live. Rob Wolf: The Light Brigade is about a war as seen through the eyes of a soldier named Dietz. In her interview with Rob Wolf on New Books in Science Fiction, she discusses using a mathematician’s help to map her time-jumping plot, working with a hands-on literary agent, and making ends meet as a writer, among other things. She has received numerous awards, including two Hugo Awards, a British Science Fiction Award, and a Locus Award. The second is the story that emerges from their experience as they learn that truth-and reality itself-are two of the war’s biggest casualties. The first kind of story got Dietz, the narrator of Kameron Hurley’s military science fiction novel The Light Brigade, to enlist in a war against aliens from Mars. Some war stories emphasize heroism and a higher purpose others emphasize brutality and disillusionment. ![]()
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