The Forever War
The science fiction classic and thought-provoking critique of war
$19.54
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
1 May 2010
Summary
Private William Mandella is a reluctant hero in an interstellar war against an unknowable and unconquerable alien enemy.
But his greatest test will be when he returns home.
Relativity means that for every few months’ tour of duty centuries have passed on Earth, isolating the combatants ever more from the world for whose future they are fighting.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780575094147 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0575094141 |
| Author: | Joe Haldeman |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Gollancz |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2010 |
| Weight: | 226g |
| Dimensions: | 24mm x 132mm x 198mm |
| Series: | S.F. Masterworks |
| Audience Age: | 14-18 |
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Critics Review
‘Military science fiction comes in many flavours, and Joe Haldeman’s is every bit as satisfying as Heinlein’s.’
It is to the Vietnam War what CATCH-22 was to World War II, the definitive, bleakly comic satire. - Thomas M Disch.
An engrossing, poignant epic. - San Francisco Examiner.A brilliant novel. - Booklist.A vastly entertaining trip. - New York Times.Joe Haldeman
Joe Haldeman was born in Oklahoma in 1943 and studied physics and astronomy before serving as a combat engineer in Vietnam, where he was severely wounded and won a Purple Heart. The Forever War was his first SF novel and it won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, a feat which The Forever Peace repeated. He is also the author of, among others, Mindbridge, All My Sins Remembered, Worlds Apart and Worlds Enough and Time.
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