The Forever War (Gollancz S.F.)

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2006
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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.

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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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Gollancz
Published: 01 Aug 2006
ISBN 10: 0575079088
ISBN 13: 9780575079083
Book Overview: A stunning SF novel Republished in Gollancz with a specially commissioned introduction by Peter F. Hamilton Astounding new cover treatment to make this backlist series a must-have collection The promotion includes the best-known names in SF: Philip K. Dick, Alfred Bester, Frederick Pohl, Roger Zelazny, Joe Haldeman ... this really is the very best of classic SF 'A book that's near perfect. A beautifully detailed and intensely personal account of a conflict which lasts for over a thousand years' Peter F. Hamilton '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' The New York Times Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula awards One of the finest novels about war ever written

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Reissued by Gollancz as one of 10 key SF texts, 'The Forever War' remains as hard-hitting as when it was first published in 1974. The anger of soldiers forced to fight an unwinnable war is as relevant as it ever was. -- Jon Courtenay Grimwood THE GUARDIAN

Author Bio

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, Worlds Apart and Worlds Enough and Time.