Space-marine

Rick Partlow’s Archangel kicks off the Archangel series with a rocket-assisted leap into powered armor warfare, black-ops politics, and transhuman morality. Partlow blends the pace of a modern shooter with themes pulled from Heinlein and Scalzi, military service, cybernetic identity, and the price of obedience.

Robert A. Heinlein wrote Starship Troopers in 1959, a landmark military science-fiction novel that shaped the genre. He paints vivid scenes of military life and the gear they wield—especially the powered armor the Mobile Infantry wears—which later writers still draw on. But the book also sparks debate, it ties full citizenship to military service, a stance critics slam as echoing fascist themes.