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<p><P><P><b>The monumental Hugo and Nebula award winning SF classic&#151; Featuring a new introduction by John Scalzi<P></b>The Earth's leaders have drawn a line in the interstellar sand&#151;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...</p><h3>Gale Research</h3><p>"Haldeman exercises his literary license," James Scott Hicks writes in the <I>Dictionary of Literary Biography,</I> "to comment on, and ultimately to expunge from his memory, America's last ground war [Vietnam]." Hicks points out that Haldeman's first novel, <I>War Year,</I> based on his army diaries, deals with the Vietnam fighting directly. "But the demon of Vietnam," Hicks writes, "was not exorcised from Halde

Who reads The Forever War?

Author

Haldeman, Joe

Publisher

Macmillan

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780312536633

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Science Fiction, Fiction

Rating

4.15 / 5 (2,747 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14