Terms of Enlistment by Marko KloosMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
This is a 3-star review. It's a weak 3 stars.
Read this some time ago, but had not reviewed it. The story wasn't terribly memorable. As I recall, it had some anti-Starship Trooper elements. Or at least it was trying to subvert the ST narrative in some way.
A couple of plot points stood out to me.
One was that so many people were basically being warehoused. They received a subsistence level of money from the government. Their access to good food was poor. And there was precious little explanation of how this came to be and how it was sustained.
Downstream from the inexplicable economics was the suggestion that people should just take what they wanted as well as the suggestion that those people had no options in which they could demonstrate their usefulness to humanity by pursuing meaningful work.
The second was that the author made the unforgivable mistake of conflating an "assault rifle/weapon" with a semi-automatic rifle. Being a veteran, he should know better.
The unexplained economics were a much larger problem.
There are better works of MilSF out there. Pursue them instead of this.
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