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http://nhw.livejournal.com/442255.html[return][return]A straightforward young-soldier's-rite-of-passage tale, a la Heinlein's Starship Troopers, Haldeman's The Forever War, or Lucius Shepard's Life During Wartime, and TBH not quite of the quality of any of those. But competent enough, and I'll keep an eye out for his other two novels.
I read this book as I understood that Keith Brooke was a talented young writer of Science Fiction. Keepers of the Peace was a pretty standard presentation of a young man molded - or maybe broken would be a better term - by the military. I pretty much knew where this book was going very early on. This subject has been done before with better results. Maybe next time for Keith Brooks?
Brooke's portrait of a future soldier is, in a sense, a bleak reflection of Haldeman's 'The Forever War' although here, there is no alien enemy, just humans. Ironically, 'aliens' is what the people of Earth call the Peacekeeping Forces'; military forces recruited from off-world colonies and sent to Earth at the behest of the American Union, half of a USA which is now split following devastating climatic changes.Jed Brindle is a black farmworker living and working with his family on an orbital se...
