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Burn Cycle
by Joel Dane
In the next installment of this military SF series, Maseo Kaytu's success manually pairing with and piloting a CAV serves as the new strategy for the Earth's military against the lamprey remorts. The only problem is that the military have no idea that Kaytu's squad-mate Ting is a technopath and responsible for that pairing, and now Kaytu faces the problem of being the only Cry Pilot while the military try to pair people with CAVs. The problem is that the fate that awaits Ting if she's found out is truly horrible, but mankind may not survive at all unless the lampreys can be fought.
This was much better written than the first one, giving much of the descriptive text I was missing from that volume. There's also satisfactory answers for many of the mysteries of the first book as well as establishing even more depth to this dystopic future where loyalty to ones corporation is meant to trump everything else. It also goes a bit more in-depth into some of the social structures that exist both in and out of the military that are an interesting evolution from today's society. (I thought the use of the term "grim" to describe someone who wasn't the default bisexual and that it was treated as a slur was an interesting touch).
Now I'm really looking forward to the next book and I hope that it can sustain the level of quality that this one lifted to.
This was much better written than the first one, giving much of the descriptive text I was missing from that volume. There's also satisfactory answers for many of the mysteries of the first book as well as establishing even more depth to this dystopic future where loyalty to ones corporation is meant to trump everything else. It also goes a bit more in-depth into some of the social structures that exist both in and out of the military that are an interesting evolution from today's society. (I thought the use of the term "grim" to describe someone who wasn't the default bisexual and that it was treated as a slur was an interesting touch).
Now I'm really looking forward to the next book and I hope that it can sustain the level of quality that this one lifted to.