“There is nobody would you [military SF] much better than Marko Kloos. His Frontlines series is certainly a deserving successor to such classics as Starship Troopers, The Forever Battle, and We All Passed away at Breakaway Train station.” -George R. R. Martin

The year is 2108, as well as the North American Commonwealth is bursting on the seams. For welfare rats like Andrew Grayson, there are only two ways out of the crime-ridden and filthy welfare tenements: You can hope to earn the lottery and draw a ticket on the colony ship settling about Conditions of Enlistment off-world . or you can sign up for the service.

Using the colony lottery a pipe dream, Andrew chooses to enlist in the armed forces for a go at real food, a retirement bonus, and perhaps a ticket off Earth. But simply because he starts a profession of supposed privilege, he shortly learns that the good food and decent health care arrive at a steep cost . . . which the settled galaxy holds much larger dangers than armed forces bureaucrats or the gangs that rule the slums.

The debut novel from Marko Kloos, Terms of Enlistment can be an addition to the great military services sci-fi tradition of Robert Heinlein, Joe Haldeman, and John Scalzi.