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Shuos Jedao awakens as a general commanding an elite force in a galaxy filled with space warfare, yet he has no memory of becoming a soldier or ever living as a commander. As the most feared and reviled man in the hexarchate, he must navigate betrayal from his own troops, who despise him for a massacre he cannot remember, while under orders from the tyrant Hexarch Nirai Kujen to re‑conquer fractured lands. Compounding his crisis, Jedao himself is being hunted by an enemy who knows more about him than he does.
First publish date: 2018
Genre: Science Fiction/Military Science Fiction
Authors: Yoon Ha Lee
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