The Forever War
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Joe Haldeman
The monumental Hugo and Nebula award winning SF classic-- Featuring a new introduction by John ScalziThe Earth's leaders have drawn a line in the interstellar sand--despite the fact that the fierce alien enemy they would oppose is inscrutable, unconquerable, and very far away. A reluctant conscript drafted into an elite Military unit, Private William Mandella has been propelled through space and time to fight in the distant thousand-year conflict; to perform his duties and do whatever it takes to survive the ordeal and return home. But "home" may be even more terrifying than battle, because, thanks to the time dilation caused by space travel, Mandella is aging months while the Earth he left behind is aging centuries...
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Author
Joe Haldeman
Pages
264
Publisher
Macmillan
Published Date
2009-02-17
ISBN
0312536631 9780312536633
Ratings
Google: 4.5
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"This was the more adult version of Ender's Game. I was really interested how time was experienced by the main characters as they traveled through space. One of my new favorite military/ si-fi books."
Josh C
"I’m not a huge sci-fi person, but was given this as a birthday gift, and I devoured it. It was written back in the 70s but so many of the themes from the books are still so relevant today. "
Kathleen J
"4/10"
Lil-Farrah
"Superb military / sci-fi book. A satire or commentary on the author's experiences while serving during the the Vietnam War, it's filled with all the gallows humour, powerlessness, cultural dissociation, and anti-military sentiment you'd expect. But it needn't be read as a commentary on the war because it's simply a rip-roaring tale of a soldier being shuttled from battle to battle over the vast distances of space against a intractable enemy. #science_fiction #action "
Jeff Tennant
"Loved the parallels to the veitnam war. Loved the physics, and the love story."
Sadie Elizabeth
"A sci-fy look at the military industrial complex of the future. I read it for a time travel class and was deeply fascinated. First person pov throughout. Solid characters. "
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