The Last Good Man

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Pub Date 20 Jun 2017 | Archive Date 01 Jun 2017

Description

A near-future thriller by the author of the Nebula-nominated THE RED: FIRST LIGHT.

Army veteran True Brighton left the service when the development of robotic helicopters made her training as a pilot obsolete. Now she works at Requisite Operations, a private military company established by friend and former Special Ops soldier Lincoln Han. ReqOp has embraced the new technologies. Robotics, big data, and artificial intelligence are all tools used to augment the skills of veteran warfighters-for-hire. But the tragedy of war is still measured in human casualties, and when True makes a chance discovery during a rescue mission, old wounds are ripped open. She’s left questioning what she knows of the past, and resolves to pursue the truth, whatever the cost.

THE LAST GOOD MAN is a powerful, complex, and very human tale.

A near-future thriller by the author of the Nebula-nominated THE RED: FIRST LIGHT.

Army veteran True Brighton left the service when the development of robotic helicopters made her training as a pilot...


A Note From the Publisher

Linda Nagata is a Nebula and Locus-award-winning writer best known for her high-tech science fiction including the Red trilogy, a series of near-future military thrillers. The first book in the trilogy, THE RED: FIRST LIGHT, was a Nebula and John W. Campbell Memorial-award finalist, and named as a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2015. Book 3, GOING DARK, was a runner-up for the Campbell Memorial award. Linda has lived most of her life in Hawaii, where she’s been a writer, a mom, a programmer of database-driven websites, and lately, an independent publisher. She lives with her husband in their long-time home on the island of Maui.

THE LAST GOOD MAN will be available as a trade paperback (978-1-937197-22-3) and in an audio edition.

Linda Nagata is a Nebula and Locus-award-winning writer best known for her high-tech science fiction including the Red trilogy, a series of near-future military thrillers. The first book in the...


Advance Praise

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY starred review: “...a thrilling novel that lays bare the imminent future of warfare.”

From Steven Gould, author of Jumper:
“I asked to see an advanced copy of The Last Good Man with the caveat that I was very busy and might not get to it. I was just going to glance at the first few pages but looked up to find myself halfway through the book in the wee hours of the morning. Only an early morning appointment kept me from reading on but I finished it the following evening.
“Welcome to the future of war. Soldiers on the ground depend more on their augmented reality visors, net connections, and hosts of robotic allies, than their rifles, but as long as they tread in harm's way, certain things do not change, including collateral damage, ethical challenges, and the grief of a mother, a warrior herself, when her son dies in action.
“Set where war's bleeding edge of technology slams into people's lives, this is a very human story, brilliantly told.”

From Hugo and Nebula award-winner Vonda N. McIntyre, author of Dreamsnake, Starfarers, and The Moon and the Sun:
“The Last Good Man is a compelling and subversive novel, told by unique characters, especially True Brighton: sympathetic, prickly, determined, all too human. Linda Nagata has impressive insights into technological advances and their potential effects. Not to mention some very cool invented AI critters.... It was a privilege to read TLGM before its publication.”

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY starred review: “...a thrilling novel that lays bare the imminent future of warfare.”

From Steven Gould, author of Jumper:
“I asked to see an advanced copy of The Last Good Man with...


Available Editions

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ISBN 9781937197230
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