Review (#10): "Terms of Enlistment," a novel by Marko Kloos (47 North, 2013)
By Péter MARTON ** Join the European Science Fiction group on Facebook for related discussions. ** This. Is. Military. SF. If you don't know what that's supposed to mean, feel free to quit. You can quit any time. Don't like it here? Not your genre? Go home. Why wait? Why turn even one more page? You still here? If you're still here, it seems like you may, just possibly, be ready for this. You may even enjoy the ride. You might get an unhealthy amount of enjoyment out of it, in fact. Reading "Terms of Enlistment," you will naturally enjoy when shit blows up from time to time get that strange feeling of déja lu ("already read," that is), because of course you have: in Starship Troopers , by Robert Heinlein. The similarity is in the most positive sense. It is a cozy familiarity with some of what's going down that immediately works to suck you into the story, even though there are also some important differences compared to th...