It’s also got the usual friendly and dependable partners-in-crime, and the tough senior officer with a heart of gold, elements which regular readers of such novels may recognise. Like the Heinlein template, it’s basically the tale of a young man who overcomes personal challenges to make good. Told in the first person, Andrew’s tale could be a story from any of Heinlein’s juvenile novels, a parallel Starship Troopers if you like. The first part of the book deals with his training, the camaraderie and relationships he develops whilst in boot camp. In 2108 Andrew Grayson is a young teenager, surviving in a tough world of welfare council housing, gangs and barely edible rations who takes up an opportunity to leave his dying Dad and despairing Mum and join the armed forces. It’s been sat in my pile-to-be-read for a while now, so I thought it was about time I gave it a go. Whilst the nomination was for Lines of Departure, the second book in the series, Terms of Enlistment is the first book. (That’s Cixin Liu’s The Three-Body Problem.) Marko has become famous in the last few years for declining a Hugo Award nomination in 2015, which then led to the addition of the nominee which won.
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