The Forever War Vol. 1 (Paperback)

from johnnyapollo

I'm currently on a bit of a Military SciFi streak - started by rereading Starship Troopers, then Ender's War and continuing to Haldeman's Forever War. I originally red this book right around publication and haven't since. It's a rather quick read and only slightly dated - if some of the dates and...

from nngrey

Very good military sci-fi. Well written, but violent and fatalistic, so if you don't like that sort of thing, stay away. It felt like the writer understood war (and sure enough, he is a Vietnam vet). The cover has a number of very flattering quotes from well known writers. I think I might have li...

from LisaMaria_C

I loved this against expectations. The blurbs spurt encomiums such as "best science fiction novel ever." One by Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Diaz calls it "Perhaps the most important war novel written since Vietnam." Such praise made me start the novel in a rather cynical "show me" mood. Given it'...

from santhony

This excellent science fiction novel is a joint 1976 Hugo/Nebula Award winner and deservedly so. It has been, along with Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein, identified as the best military science fiction novel in existence. The author, Joe Haldeman, is a Vietnam veteran, and his experience in ...

from lunacat

When William Mandella is conscripted, he is forced to realise that his life is over. Not only is the war an interstellar one, against an unknown force called the Taurans, the severity of the conditions they are fighting in are just as dangerous as the enemy. But that's not all. Relativity means t...