fractonimbus 's review for:

2034: A Novel of the Next World War by James Stavridis, Elliot Ackerman

4.0

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One of the best future histories I've read in a while. If you can hold your nose in the beginning when exposed to some eye-rolling cookie cutter trope characters, the novel will subvert expectations. I also had to suspend disbelief a bit as US adversaries are implausibly able to employ previously unknown weapons capabilities at will and in theater.

This is similar to how I felt about the apocalypse book Lights Out. It's much better than the climate change catastrophe book Ministry for the Future.