Of This and Other Worlds - Science Fiction and Fantasy Reading Group

For the second book of 2025, we head to a universe much like our own. An earth like our own. A humanity like our own. Almost entirely like our own. Except for the war with a race of space-faring insects and a dash of controversial thought on modern military politics.

5,000 years in the future, humanity faces total extermination.

Our one defence: highly-trained soldiers who scour the metal-strewn blackness of space to hunt down a terrifying enemy: an insect life-form known only as 'Bugs.'

This is the story of trooper Johnny Rico, from his idealistic enlistment in the infantry of the future through his rigorous training to the command of his own platoon. And his destiny is a war that will span the galaxy.