A Corner Not Dipped in Styx

A novella by the author of Seaborn and Nanowhere.

A young lieutenant leads a recon team in the middle of a resource war on a hostile jungle world, and every step means facing a firefight, anti-personnel mines, deadly indigenous flora, or biology students. The skies are filled with autonomous bombers, and when the team comes across humans in the jungle they’re just as likely to be geologists lost in the woods as enemy combatants. To the lieutenant it’s all a matter of completing the mission without hurting civilians, identifying but trying to avoid trading rounds with enemy forces, and keeping his team out of the stomachs of the rather large predatory ground fauna called “wringids”. Unfortunately, it doesn’t go that way.