Heralded as one of Publishers Weekly's best books of 2019, Kameron Hurley's 'The Light Brigade' immerses readers in a visceral military science fiction saga, echoing the narrative prowess of 'Full Metal Jacket' and the temporal intricacies of 'Edge of Tomorrow.' Hurley unfolds an intense interplanetary war where soldiers, transformed into beams of light, are dispatched to the caustic fronts of Mars. Among them is Dietz, a raw recruit whose wartime experiences deviate from the platoon's regimented drops, hinting at an unsettling reality veiled by the corps' official version. Grappling with disjointed memories and the fog of war, Dietz's journey oscillates between heroism and villainy, challenging the very nature of truth amid the chaos of conflict. An homage to genre-defining classics like 'Starship Troopers' and 'The Forever War,' 'The Light Brigade' is a poignant exploration of the contortions of time, the brutalities of war, and the fragility of sanity.