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Cry Pilot by Joel Dane

Cry Pilot

Following the collapse of governments (yes, all of them), vast corporations step in to take over the running of the planet, providing housing, security and technology to the districts in which they operate.

They also are responsible for fighting the biological “machines” they spawned to fight their wars.

Kaytu joins one the corporate armies as a Cry Pilot: an operator of a mech designed to engage these creatures. Kaytu intends to use this as a stepping stone into the regular corporate army. There’s just one small snag: Cry Pilots rarely survive their first encounter.

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Call to Arms by Alan Dean Foster

I really liked Relic by the same author, so I thought it was worth giving another one of his books a punt. A random stab on Amazon brings up a Call To Arms, a story (number one in a trilogy, I think) about a galactic war between two cultures.

One alliance (the Amplitur) seeks to unite every being in the universe in the undertaking of one great Purpose.

The other alliance (the Weave) would rather not.

And so, the battle rages on for centuries, with both sides recruiting civilisations, but neither side really gaining advantage. The problem is deceptively simple: each side believes heart and soul in their cause, but each side has evolved beyond the savagery, the desire for violence, the selfishness, the innate sense of superiority they need to win the war.

Then on a routine scouting mission, the Weave encounter a creature from a race who may have the destructive qualities that can turn the tide of the war.

The creature’s name is Will, a frustrated music composer from New Orleans.

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