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Planetside by Michael Mammay6/26/2023 ![]() ![]() To mark the release of The Misfit Soldier, Michael Mammay stopped by the site to tell us all about the book, his biggest military sci-fi pet peeves, and what science fiction characters from other stories he’d want on his squad if he were undertaking a borderline insane mission like the one his characters take in the book. I had a blast reading this book you can find my full spoiler-free review for it here. But as with any good heist novel, there’s plenty more to the story than the mission. When one of Sergeant Gas Gastovsky’s soldiers is left behind on a war-torn planet, he assembles an eclectic team of misfits to go after the missing man. The Misfit Soldier is a heist novel, combining elements more common to stories like Ocean’s Eleven with the trappings of military sci-fi. With his fourth book, The Misfit Soldier, Mammay is taking things a step further. ![]() They were great books, and elicited just as many laughs as gasps. ![]() He followed up with two sequels, Spaceside(2019) and Colonyside(2020), which further expanded Butler’s story. Michael Mammay broke onto the military sci-fi scene in 2018 with his novel Planetside, which followed semi-retired colonel Carl Butler as he unraveled a conspiracy with galaxy-wide implications. ![]() While that reputation is sometimes well-earned, it’s not always the case. Military science fiction often gets a rap for being very serious and filled with heavy ideas and themes. ![]()
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