If you’re into science-fiction that doesn’t demand much of the reader, the Frontlines series is right up your ally.
In my simple mind, Chains of Command is the weakest link in the Frontlines chain. It’s not that the less action-packed parts of Kloos writing is bad or boring, it’s just that the parts with pod drops, spaceships, and nukes are so much better. In the fourth novel, Chains of Command, Kloos uses too much time on talk, and not enough on the action. I sincerely enjoyed all 6 novels in the series, with the third one, Angels of Attack being the highlight. It’s not overwhelming, however, and Kloos doesn’t fall for the temptation to go completely off the rails with zero-gravity romance. But there is, of course, a love story going as a common thread through the series. There’s little downtime and unnecessary descriptions of the smell of the flowers, or romantic dialogue. The novels are mostly fast-paced, and packed with military and fleet action. Terms of Enlistment (2013), Lines of Departure (2014), Angles of Attack (2015), Chains of Command (2016), Fields of Fire (2017), and Points of Impact (2018). The Frontlines series consists of six novels, with a new novel being published by 47North every year from 2013 to 2018. In the series, he draws from his experience from when he served as a soldier in the German army.
His first novel, Terms of Enlistment, was published in 2013, and is the first in the Frontlines series. But then he decided to try his luck as a full time author. Over the years, Marko has worked as, among other things, a bookseller, freight dock worker, and corporate IT administrator. Marko writes primarily science fiction and fantasy, his first genre love ever since his youth when he spent his allowance mostly on German SF pulp serials. Raised in and around the city of Münster, he now lives in New Hampshire, USA. Marko Kloos is a German-born science-fiction author. But it’s a walk in the park compared to the dangers Andrew faces when blood thirsty aliens suddenly show up on humanity’s doorstep. Crushing welfare riots as a foot solider in the Territorial Army, or battling the SRA for off-world real estate is a tough and grueling job. This decision puts him on a decade long path from welfare rat to experienced military officer. You can hope to win the lottery and draw a ticket on a colony ship settling off-world, or you can join the service in the war against the Sino-Russian Alliance.Īndrew decides to enlist in the armed forces for a shot at real food, a retirement bonus, and maybe a ticket off Earth. It’s a overcrowded, crime-ridden, community where day-to-day survival is the main focus for most people.
A young Andrew Grayson is a welfare rat living in one of the North American Commonwealth’s many Public Relations Clusters, PRCs.
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