You liked Starship Troopers and Old Man’s War and The Forever War. Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee piques your interest. You enjoy science fiction - not exclusively, there’s too much other good shit out there for you to limit yourself solely to one genre - so you look to the Hugo nominees, normally a solid indicator of quality. A book of profanities written in every futile shade of red the human body had ever devised, its pages upended over the battlefield from horizon to horizon.” Gape-jawed, twisted skulls with eye sockets staring out of their sides and strands of tendon knotted through crumbling teeth. Black-and-gold Kel uniforms braided into cracked rib cages. Feet scraped inside-out next to unblemished boots. “Cheris was unable to organize her first heart-stop impressions of what had been the rest of the battalion.
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