A waste of several days of my life!

The alarm bells really should have started ringing during the far too pretentious introduction by Jonathan Strahan, but I persisted with this compilation of short stories that promised to take me to the “furthest extremes of military science fiction” (even though the first two offerings were not complete stories – just two seemingly random chapters from what could have been really engrossing novels.

THE MOON IS NOT A BATTLEFIELD did have some slight resonance in its’ depiction of the problems being faced by Indian soldiers on their return to Earth after extended posting on the Lunar surface – this echoed some of the struggles face by current veterans on their return from active duty.

And THE ORACLE seemed to feature a Trump’esque-POTUS far too realistically, but overall, I found little connection with the contents of this book, and any military science fiction currently available – or even as the introduction mentions, some of the ‘classics’ of Mil-SF such as ‘The Forever War’ or even ‘Starship Troopers’.

I tried so very hard to finish this anthology, but sadly life is too short to waste on this load of drivel, and I gave up at 49%.