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Terms of Enlistment

Frontlines, Book 1

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Terms of Enlistment

By: Marko Kloos
Narrated by: Luke Daniels
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“There is nobody who does [military SF] better than Marko Kloos. 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. R. Martin

The year is 2108, and the North American Commonwealth is bursting at the seams. 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...or you can join the service.

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. 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...and that the settled galaxy holds far greater dangers than military bureaucrats or the gangs that rule the slums.

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.

Revised edition: This edition of Terms of Enlistment includes editorial revisions.

©2014 by Marko Kloos. (P)2013 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved. Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Military Science Satire Science Fiction Comedy Interstellar Military
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left me looking for the next book in the series can not wait to see what is next

great book

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This is a story that is simple in structure but great in execution. Worth a listen.

A great read

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great listen. the story was very engaging which built at a good pace making it hard to stop.

a really good read.

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Not really sure what I expected with this book but totally got into it and really couldn't put it down. Go on, give it a go. You know you want too

Not sure what I expected

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interesting story but I felt it borrowed too much from other known SciFi series. But it did find it's feet and start making its own pace eventually.

interesting story uses a lot of tropes

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great book, great narration! bit of a slow start but gets interesting pretty quick after a bit. can't wait to listen to the next one!!

awesome!

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I Really enjoyed it. Fast paced and action packed. We'll written I find myself invested in the characters

Excellent

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Good simple book. There are no ideas that will blow your mind but i t is a good read.

Good solid military sci-fi

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audio was nice and easy to follow with good generic voices for different charecters.
has no technical information when describing ships, tech, history ect but otherwise just a clasic underdog type story about his rise to greatness.

well spoken story

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I loved this man couldn't put it down! Am going to pick up the second one straight away!

Was glued from start to finish!

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