This is well-written and engaging military SF. I’m the key target for such a novel: it ticks all the boxes for things I like to read about.

In many ways, Terms of Enlistment is safe territory for me. I’d read some good things about it and seeing it available through the very weird “lending” system on Amazon Prime (at least, I think it was that: Amazon has a wide range of ways to obtain books for a shorter or longer period these days) I eagerly downloaded it. This is Marko Kloos’ debut novel, published by the Amazon imprint 47North all the way back in 2014. and that the settled galaxy holds far greater dangers than military bureaucrats or the gangs that rule the slums.” But as he starts a career of supposed privilege, he soon learns that the good food and decent health care come at a steep price. With the colony lottery a pipe dream, Andrew chooses to enlist in the armed forces for a shot at real food, a retirement bonus, and maybe a ticket off Earth. For welfare rats like Andrew Grayson, there are only two ways out of the crime-ridden and filthy welfare tenements: You can hope to win the lottery and draw a ticket on a colony ship settling off-world. “The year is 2108, and the North American Commonwealth is bursting at the seams. Here is the blurb from on Terms of Enlistment: I’m going to be exploring a few in the coming weeks, and promise to try harder to keep up my reviewing presence, but today I’m going to start with something familiar. The result? A whole range of easily acquired, cheap and very readable books that I would otherwise not have picked up. However, lockdown made acquiring fresh old-fashioned paperbacks more difficult, so I invested in a Kindle.

I’d resisted the temptation to get into the ebook ecosystem for a long time I prefer the physical presence of a book. I picked this up during lockdown as a result of buying a Kindle. Today’s review is Terms of Enlistment by Marko Kloos. I am going to try to make this more consistent, but I’m sure you’ve heard that one before. I managed to keep one of those promises, and it doesn’t relate to blogging. Those who tirelessly worked through the lockdown have my thanks.ĭuring lockdown, I made two promises to myself: that I would read more and that I would blog more. I say many, because for some the world kept going – I’m talking here about the NHS staff, the emergency services and delivery staff, as well as shop workers (who, to many, have been a limb of the emergency services).

It seems strange and also liberating to be moving back to the old world, although that’s not quite accurate: the world we now live in is very different to that many of us left in March 2020. The restrictions on going outside are coming to an end for most people, and for the more vulnerable the restrictions are starting to lift.

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