{"product_id":"2940170457113","title":"The Light Brigade","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Hugo Award­­-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Stars Are Legion\u003c\/i\u003e comes a brand-new science-fiction thriller about a futuristic war during which soldiers are broken down into light in order to get them to the front lines on Mars.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThey said the war would turn us into light. I wanted to be counted among the heroes who gave us this better world.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Light Brigade: it¿s what soldiers fighting the war against Mars call the ones who come back...different. Grunts in the corporate corps get busted down into light to travel to and from interplanetary battlefronts. Everyone is changed by what the corps must do in order to break them down into light. Those who survive learn to stick to the mission brief amp;mdash; no matter what actually happens during combat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDietz, a fresh recruit in the infantry, begins to experience combat drops that don¿t sync up with the platoon¿s. Dietz¿s bad drops tell a story of the war that¿s not at all what the corporate brass want the soldiers to think is going on.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIs Dietz really experiencing the war differently, or is it combat madness? Trying to untangle memory from mission brief and survive with sanity intact, Dietz is ready to become a hero amp;mdash; or maybe a villain; in war, it¿s hard to tell the difference.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA worthy successor to classic stories like \u003ci\u003eDownbelow Station\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eStarship Troopers\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Forever War\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Light Brigade\u003c\/i\u003e is award-winning author Kameron Hurley¿s gritty time-bending take on the future of war.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47104976781552,"sku":"2940170457113","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170457113_p0.jpg?v=1763806278","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170457113","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}