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Amazon.com Review In the 1970s Joe Haldeman approached more than a dozen different publishers before he finally found one interested in The Forever War . The book went on to win both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, although a large chunk of the story had been cut out before it saw publication. Now Haldeman and Avon Books have released the definitive version of The Forever War , published for the first time as Haldeman originally intended. The book tells the timeless story of war, in this case a conflict between humanity and the alien Taurans. Humans first bumped heads with the Taurans when we began using collapsars to travel the stars. Although the collapsars provide nearly instantaneous travel across vast distances, the relativistic speeds associated with the process means that time passes slower for those aboard ship. For William Mandella, a physics student drafted as a soldier, that means more than 27 years will have passed between his first encounter with the Taurans and his homecoming, though he himself will have aged only a year. When Mandella finds that he can't adjust to Earth after being gone so long from home, he reenlists, only to find himself shuttled endlessly from batt

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Author

Haldeman, Joe

Publisher

Eos/HarperCollins

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780312536633

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

4.15 / 5 (89,663 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14