But I wouldn’t approach it expecting to have your sides split with laughter. It’s wryly amusing, and gets the odd smile. This is definitely a lighter piece of reading than Mammay’s other books, but it didn’t make me laugh. Personally, I disagree with this reviews. A lot of the buzz around The Misfit Soldier promises this to be a comedy, or at the very least funny. The phrase ‘loose cannon’ could easily be applied to our Gas. He’s a lot more self-serving, for a start, even if he is loyal to his comrades. It’s still told in the first person, but Gas is a very different narrator to Planetside‘s Butler. Stylistically, however, The Misfit Soldier is a very different beast to its predecessors. Not in a critical sense, but in the way that warfare has worn the gloss away, and what’s left are hard-bitten soldiers treating war like the job it is. There’s no backslapping patriotism, but rather a more jaded view of the whole idea. It’s military SF, written by someone with an intimate and first-hand knowledge of how the military machine works. The Misfit Soldier is a standalone, but those who have read Mammay’s other works will feel at home here. But while I wait for news on that, and before I get to Mammay’s upcoming Generation Ship, there’s this book to deal with. The whole -side trilogy is a delight, and apparently has a fourth volume in the works. I’ve kept up with Mammay’s work ever since, even with the delays in UK publications. I’d even call Planetside the worst kept secret favourite of the online community. Happily, it seems the book blogging community at large enjoyed it just as much as I did. It was a great book, and one that I couldn’t find anyone to talk to about. Michael Mammay’s debut novel Planetside is one of the reasons I started this blog. So when ‘Gas’ Gastovsky learns of a friend’s disappearance, he pulls out all the stops to get him back. It’s an easy promise to make, a far harder one to keep.
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