The Light Brigade

A military scifi where earth is ruled by corporations, and soldiers are de-materialized and re-materialized on Mars, the battlefront. The heroine of this story sometimes gets lost in time, during these jumps. Reminiscent of Memento, she tries to piece together the time-puzzle, that seems to hold the truth about a mysterious illness in the future, and why the enemy sometimes doesn't look all that unfamiliar.

The psychology of war is always fascinating, and this is another great sci-fi take on it. A soldier that goes to war lives in a different reality, they don't run on normal time, they run on mission time, and are only fed need-to-know information. Propaganda nourishes the battle spirit and is mostly welcome. A total control of the media might even gaslight a whole population as to who is the true enemy in one's war.

Great pace, great engaging mystery and especially effective in how it weaves many familiar sociopolitical aspects into the plot.

I really dug the war-of-the-worlds meta twist and maybe could have done without the timetravel. Obviously the timetravel was the energetic plot device, but in my opinion it wasn't properly explained how it would be possible.