You can hope to win the lottery and draw a ticket on a colony ship settling off-world, or you can join the service. For welfare rats like Andrew Grayson, there are only two ways out of the crime-ridden and filthy welfare tenements, where you’re restricted to 2,000 calories of badly flavored soy every day. The year is 2108, and the North American Commonwealth is bursting at the seams. Via Terms of Enlistment: Marko Kloos: : Kindle Store. It draws the reader into a great story and also examines the human condition (even if just a bit). Terms of Enlistment is a science fiction story that does (in my opinion) exactly what good science fiction should do. I’m very pleased that Marko Kloos has been able to tell this particular story and has already planned on releasing the follow-up book in a planned three-part series this upcoming May 2013. There are a lot of wonderful stories being told by talented authors that now have a way to extend their audience. More importantly it has also made it easier for independent authors to self-publish. The book was a recommendation that came up during a discussion about how easy e-readers have made it so easy to buy and ready books. I may have selfishly given the older kids an extra hour of screen time Saturday morning in order to finish the book. I couldn’t put the book down and had the final chapter completed the day after starting it. I just finished reading Terms of Enlistment by Marko Kloos and it was a really great science fiction story. Revised edition: This edition of Terms of Enlistment includes editorial revisions.Terms of Enlistment book cover, provided by author Markos Kloos. 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. 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. As the nation hurtles toward rebirth, the two friends, newly empowered, must decide who they want to be, and what they are willing to give up. 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.
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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