Chaos Squad is a Science Fiction novel written by Delenn Jadzia and published in 2016. The book follows Vera "Jupiter" Hutch as she commands a squadron of teen soldiers following the Earth's entrance into an intergalactic war against a feared alien race called the X. When the X disappear from the front line and the war is placed on hold, the squadron is suddenly thrust back into an almost-civilian life after years in the military. On top of this, the girls are as clueless as the rest of the world as to why the X vanished and why they took eight-year-old war messenger Kara Ruben with them.
The novel straddles the line between science-fiction, military fiction, and LGBT fiction with several female characters in relationships with other female characters, and one character who is identified as transgender MTF.
Chaos Squad contains examples of:
- Band of Brothers: Jupiter and Lancelot discuss the bonds with their squads in Chapter 9.
- Big Damn Heroes: The girls are able to save the day in the nick of time during the final battle of Chapter 23.
- Cast Full of Gay: More than half of the main characters appear to identify as non-straight.
- Extreme Omnisexual: Juno makes advances on many, many people.
- First-Person Perspective: Written in first person past tense.
- Heroic Sacrifice: In Chapter 11 when Oliver sacrifices themself in order to save Lancelot.
- Lowered Recruiting Standards: Combined with Child Soldiers, as children as young as eight have been known to enlist.
- Old Friend, New Gender: Sagittarius is mistakenly called her pre-transition call sign, Galahad, by some of her old squadmates.
- The Squad: The ten members of Defense Team 325, aka "Chaos Squad".
- Young Adult Literature: Written about group of a teens growing up.
