I feel vaguely guilty marking this book as science fiction as the science is so completely WTF as to maybe shade it into some other genre.
On the other hand, it's a space opera with battles and internecine politics and undead generals who may or may not be insane and it's weird and did I mention that the calendar controls the technology?
So strange. So much fun. I have such a soft spot for space operas about soldiers making moral decisions in the face of a complex government.