![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The price point to get the bonus novels (of which TERMS is one) is 15, which will get you eight new Skiffy novels on your e-reader. Reviewing the first novel, Terms of Enlistment, io9 described it as sticking close to the conventions of the genre, focusing on guns, acronyms, hard-ass drill. The debut novel from Marko Kloos, Terms of Enlistment is an addition to the great military sci-fi tradition of Robert Heinlein, Joe Haldeman, and John Scalzi. TERMS OF ENLISTMENT, the first volume in the Frontlines series, is part of the current StoryBundle (called Starward Bound), along with novels by a whole bunch of other excellent writers. 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. His Frontlines series is a worthy successor to such classics as Starship Troopers, The Forever War, and We All Died at Breakaway Station." -George R. ![]() "There is nobody who does better than Marko Kloos. ![]()
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