In all honesty I didn't finish it. That's not to say its a terrible book, I just lost interest half way through and completely stopped enjoying it and couldn't bring myself to finish it - that is the reason for the 2 stars. Maybe I didn't give it enough of a try, there is a slim possibility that I...
One of my top five sci-fi books of all time. Brilliantly plotted and by turns witty, sarcastic, wondrous and cynical, it was one of the first sci-fi books I'd read that "made sense" from a political perspective (hint: it's really about the Vietnam war). I've read it a dozen times since the early 80s...
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's r...
This book was just as good as I remember it from my youth. Some of the best bits involve time dilation, nova bombs, a stasis field and combat within using knives and bows, swords and spears. Rereading as an adult, I found the character story fairly solid as well. There are related stories and even a...
I'd heard great things about The Forever War, so I was eager to dive in. But about halfway through, I was disappointed. I loved Haldeman's exploration of time dilation's impact on individual and communal lives, and how he used the disorientation caused by time dilation to represent the ambivalent an...
Older sci-fi seems to be more about the time it was written than the future. However, after somewhere around the mid-point it becomes really really good.
The first half of this book was pretty interesting. The second half blew my mind. This is my first time experiencing Joe Haldeman and I do believe he will have to go on my Eternal Bookshelf.I often pictured the actor Will Smith as William Mandela. Mandela was so easy for me to relate to, being an av...
I put off reading this book for a long time. It sounded interesting but I hate having to read page after page of fighting. I was assured that this book wasn't just about war so I relented and got it. This is science fiction at it's finest. It starts with Mandala, a private in the army, beginning...
classic space opera; important for taking into account relativistic effects (hence, "Forever" war).launched sequel, forever peace.hugo/nebula/campbell... i think?soldiers in space fight an unending war with ever decreasing quality of weapons against an implacable foe...cf. "Armor"
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