There needs to be an Insignia fandom right now....
Insignia is a book by S.J Kincaid, the first of a series, and it looks like itās gonna turn into a real epic and I would really love some other people to talk about it with.
The book focuses on Tom Raines, a fourteen year old expert gamer who lives on the road with his deadbeat dad and is one day recruited to an elite military group from which Combatants are selected to fight World War III. The book is set far enough in the future that war is no longer a thing that kills people, but the lengths that countries have had to go to to reach this point are extreme and the book sets up up for a series that will deal with themes such as the power of the well monied vs everyone else, how much a single person or corporation can earn and the cost of keeping ones integrity. Also, despite some problematic dealings with gender issues, there is a brilliant female character involved, who is smart and funny but not especially conventionally attractive and lacking any social skills whatsoever (like, sheās not awkward or anything, sheās just a master of being ridiculously tactless).Ā
So yeah, the moral of this story is that you should read this book and then we can talk about it. If youāve already read it and want to talk about it then I am all ears. If youāve already decided to fangasm over this book despite it having noĀ discernibleĀ fandom, then Iām in Hannibal Division and my call sign is Anansi :)Ā













