Also: god bless copy editors.
My assistant, Denise Beucler, put in a lot of hours on this project as well (in addition to all the many other ways she has assisted me). Many thanks to her for the particularly brutal crunch that got this book to its first sales-ready presentation.
As ever, special thanks to Jayson Utz for enduring my drunken rants, self-immolating deadlines, and particularly grim wit. I’m a pretty funny gal.
There are many cribbed references in this particular work. I’ll let you all enjoy ferreting them out, but know that yes, they are—in nearly every case—willful homages. This ain’t my first rodeo. Don’t @ me.
Finally, all my love to you, the truest fans of Team Hurley, for the support, cheerleading, book buying, reviewing, and general goodness you bring to the world.
Don’t just fight the darkness, friends. Let’s be the light.
The Big Red House
Summer 2018
About the Author
KAMERON HURLEY is the author of The Stars Are Legion, as well as the award-winning Bel Dame Apocrypha (God’s War Trilogy), the short story collection Apocalypse Nyx, the Worldbreaker Saga, and the Hugo Award—nominated essay collection The Geek Feminist Revolution. Hurley has won the Hugo Award, Locus Award, Kitschies Award, and Sydney J. Bounds Award for Best Newcomer. Hurley was also a finalist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, Nebula Award, and Morningstar Award. Hurley’s short fiction has appeared in Popular Science magazine, Lightspeed magazine, and many anthologies. Hurley has also written for the Atlantic, Writer’s Digest, Entertainment Weekly, The Village Voice, LA Weekly, Bitch magazine, and Locus magazine. Hurley posts regularly at kameronhurley.com.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Hurley, Kameron, author.
Title: The light brigade / Kameron Hurley.
Description: First edition. | London ; New York : SAGA Press, [2019]
Identifiers: LCCN 2018022464 (print) | LCCN 2018024533 (ebook) | ISBN 9781481447966 (Hardcover) | ISBN 9781481447980 (eBook)
Subjects: LCSH: Intelligence officers—Fiction. | Terrorism—Prevention—Fiction. | Assassins—Fiction. | Imaginary wars and battles—Fiction. | Space warfare—Fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Science Fiction / Space Opera. | FICTION / Science Fiction / Adventure. | FICTION / Science Fiction / General. | GSAFD: Science fiction. | Fantasy fiction. | War stories. | Suspense fiction | Adventure stories
Classification: LCC PS3608.U769 (ebook) | LCC PS3608.U769 L54 2019 (print) | DDC 813/.6—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018022464
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