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HE'D DO ANYTHING TO GET A STORY. When journalist Lex Falk gets himself chipped into the brain of a combat soldier, he thinks he has the ultimate scoop - a report from the forbidden front line of a distant planetary war, live to the living rooms of Earth. When the soldier is killed, however, Lex has to take over the body and somehow get himself back to safety once more... broadcasting all the way. Heart-stopping combat science fiction from the million-selling Warhammer 40,000 author. File Under: Science Fiction [ Future Warefare | Chipped-In | Anything For a Story | Get Out Alive! ] From the Paperback edition.
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RamsFan1963
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I think this is a case of "it's not you, its me". I used to love military sci-fi, but now I find them jargon heavy and formulaic, with to many stereotypes.

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RamsFan1963
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"Places were shuttered and boarded, screened by chain link and mesh sheeting, painted with pollution, stained by sun light and finished off with the fine detail graffiti scrawled by the bored, the indolent, the dispossessed, the township youth, the out-of-a- job migrants, the contact-less miners"

The shuttered and boarded part sounds right...

wanderinglynn “There‘s a slight creak, the sound of footsteps over one of the two warped boards between the bed and window.” 🤔 Not sure how to interpret that. 😂 4y
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RamsFan1963
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The digital brooch at the throat of his regulation unitard read Fanciman, Major Gene Gillard, S.O.M.D., but from the handshake and greeting it was clear that the major affected a more mannered pronunciation of his surname, something along the lines of Funsmun.

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