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Product Identifiers
PublisherSt. Martin's Press
ISBN-100312536631
ISBN-139780312536633
eBay Product ID (ePID)70338730
Product Key Features
Book TitleForever War
Number of Pages288 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2009
TopicScience Fiction / Alien Contact, Science Fiction / Hard Science Fiction, Science Fiction / Military
GenreFiction
AuthorJoe Haldeman
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight9.5 Oz
Item Length8.3 in
Item Width5.6 in
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LCCN2009-005705
Reviews"To say that The Forever War is the best science fiction war novel ever written is to damn it with faint praise. It is, for all its techno-extrapolative brilliance, as fine and woundingly genuine a war story as any I've read." --William Gibson, author of Neuromancer, Spook Country "There are a handful of moments when an American science fiction novel abruptly and seemingly effortlessly satisfied every possible expectation conveyed not only by the genre's ambitions, but of those of the whole literary landscape with which it was contemporary: Sturgeon's More Than Human , Dick's The Man In The High Castle , LeGuin's Dispossessed , Gibson's Neuromancer . The Forever War is one such book, and like those others still carries with it that air of recognition and possibility." --Jonathan Lethem, author of Gun With Occcasional Music, Fortress of Solitude "Perhaps the most important war novel written since Vietnam . . . Haldeman, a veteran, is a flat-out visionary . . . and protagonist William Mandella's attempt to survive and remain human in the face of an absurd almost endless war is harrowing hilarious heartbreaking and true . . . like all the best works of literature THE FOREVER WAR takes you apart and then, before you can turn that last page, puts you back together: better, wiser, more human. Simply extraordinary." --Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao "If there was a Fort Knox for Science Fiction writers, we'd have to lock Joe Haldeman up." -- Stephen King, author of The Shining, The Dead Zone, The Stand " The Forever War is not just a great Science Fiction novel, it's a great Vietnam war novel - and a great war novel, without qualification- that is also Science Fiction. A classic to grace either genre." --James Sallis, author of The Long Legged Fly, Drive, Cripple Creek "FOREVER WAR is brilliant--one of the most influential war novels of our time. That it happens to be set in the future only broadens and enhances its message." --Greg Bear, author of Moving Mars, Eon, The Forge of God "A parable whose lessons are needful learning once more." --John Scalzi, author of Old Man's War, The Ghost Brigades, Zoe's Tale "I first read this twenty years ago and have never forgotten the wonder and fury it kindled at the time. Anyone who talks about the glory of war has obviously never read it. A beautifully detailed and intensely personal account of a conflict which lasts for over a thousand years, as told by one grunt who lives through it all. Only a writer as skillfull and knowledgeable as Haldeman could use war's dark glamour to lure the reader in and then deplou the sam fascination to show just what kind of effect this orchestrated barbarism can have on the human soul." --Peter F. Hamilton, author of Pandora's Star, Judas Unchained, The Dreaming Void "In a literature of ideas, The Forever War is a titan: a book filled with mind-bending ideas about relatavistic time-distortion and world-shaking ideas about the futility of war. In today's world, where we think declaring war on abstract nouns like TERROR is a winning strategy, we need THE FOREVER WAR." --Cory Doctorow, author of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Little Brother X "It is to the Vietnam War what Catch-22 was to World War II, the definitive, bleakly comic satire." --Thomas M. Disch, author of Camp Concentration, 334 " The Forever War does what the very best science fiction does. It deals with extremes both societal and teleological; it places a frame around humankind's place in the universe to show us what is outside the frame; and it functions simultaneously at the literal and metaphorical level. Inarguably one of the genre's great novels, it is also among the finest novels ever written about war." --James Sallis, author of The Long Legged Fly, Drive, Cripple Creek, I first read this twenty years ago and have never forgotten the wonder and fury it kindled at the time. Anyone who talks about the glory of war has obviously never read it. A beautifully detailed and intensely personal account of a conflict which lasts for over a thousand years, as told by one grunt who lives through it all. Only a writer as skillfull and knowledgeable as Haldeman could use war's dark glamour to lure the reader in and then deplou the sam fascination to show just what kind of effect this orchestrated barbarism can have on the human soul., The Forever War is not just a great Science Fiction novel, it's a great Vietnam war novel - and a great war novel, without qualification- that is also Science Fiction. A classic to grace either genre., FOREVER WAR is brilliant--one of the most influential war novels of our time. That it happens to be set in the future only broadens and enhances its message., "To say that The Forever War is the best science fiction war novel ever written is to damn it with faint praise. It is, for all its techno-extrapolative brilliance, as fine and woundingly genuine a war story as any I''ve read." -- William Gibson , author of Neuromancer, Spook Country "There are a handful of moments when an American science fiction novel abruptly and seemingly effortlessly satisfied every possible expectation conveyed not only by the genre''s ambitions, but of those of the whole literary landscape with which it was contemporary: Sturgeon''s More Than Human , Dick''s The Man In The High Castle , LeGuin''s Dispossessed , Gibson''s Neuromancer . The Forever War is one such book, and like those others still carries with it that air of recognition and possibility." -- Jonathan Lethem , author of Gun With Occcasional Music, Fortress of Solitude "Perhaps the most important war novel written since Vietnam . . . Haldeman, a veteran, is a flat-out visionary . . . and protagonist William Mandella''s attempt to survive and remain human in the face of an absurd almost endless war is harrowing hilarious heartbreaking and true . . . like all the best works of literature THE FOREVER WAR takes you apart and then, before you can turn that last page, puts you back together: better, wiser, more human. Simply extraordinary." -- Junot Diaz , Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao "If there was a Fort Knox for Science Fiction writers, we''d have to lock Joe Haldeman up." -- Stephen King , author of The Shining, The Dead Zone, The Stand " The Forever War is not just a great Science Fiction novel, it''s a great Vietnam war novel - and a great war novel, without qualification- that is also Science Fiction. A classic to grace either genre." -- Iain M. Banks , author of Use of Weapons, The Player of Games, Matter "FOREVER WAR is brilliant--one of the most influential war novels of our time. That it happens to be set in the future only broadens and enhances its message." -- Greg Bear , author of Moving Mars, Eon, The Forge of God "A parable whose lessons are needful learning once more." -- John Scalzi , author of Old Man's War, The Ghost Brigades, Zoe's Tale "I first read this twenty years ago and have never forgotten the wonder and fury it kindled at the time. Anyone who talks about the glory of war has obviously never read it. A beautifully detailed and intensely personal account of a conflict which lasts for over a thousand years, as told by one grunt who lives through it all. Only a writer as skillfull and knowledgeable as Haldeman could use war''s dark glamour to lure the reader in and then deplou the sam fascination to show just what kind of effect this orchestrated barbarism can have on the human soul." -- Peter F. Hamilton , author of Pandora's Star, Judas Unchained, The Dreaming Void "In a literature of ideas, The Forever War is a titan: a book filled with mind-bending ideas about relatavistic time-distortion and world-shaking ideas about the futility of war. In today''s world, where we think declaring war on abstract nouns like TERROR is a winning strategy, we need THE FOREVER WAR." -- Cory Doctorow , author of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Little Brother X "It is to the Vietnam War what Catch-22 was to World War II, the definitive, bleakly comic satire." -- Thomas M. Disch , author of Camp Concentration , 334 " The Forever War does what the very best science fiction does. It deals with extremes both societal and teleological; it places a frame around humankind''s place in the universe to show us what is outside the frame; and it functions simultaneously at the literal and metaphorical level. Inarguably one of the genre''s great novels, it is also among the finest novels ever written about war." -- James Sallis , author of The Long Legged Fly, Drive, Cripple Creek, "To say that The Forever War is the best science fiction war novel ever written is to damn it with faint praise. It is, for all its techno-extrapolative brilliance, as fine and woundingly genuine a war story as any I''ve read." --William Gibson, author of Neuromancer, Spook Country "There are a handful of moments when an American science fiction novel abruptly and seemingly effortlessly satisfied every possible expectation conveyed not only by the genre''s ambitions, but of those of the whole literary landscape with which it was contemporary: Sturgeon''s More Than Human , Dick''s The Man In The High Castle , LeGuin''s Dispossessed , Gibson''s Neuromancer . The Forever War is one such book, and like those others still carries with it that air of recognition and possibility." --Jonathan Lethem, author of Gun With Occcasional Music, Fortress of Solitude "Perhaps the most important war novel written since Vietnam . . . Haldeman, a veteran, is a flat-out visionary . . . and protagonist William Mandella''s attempt to survive and remain human in the face of an absurd almost endless war is harrowing hilarious heartbreaking and true . . . like all the best works of literature THE FOREVER WAR takes you apart and then, before you can turn that last page, puts you back together: better, wiser, more human. Simply extraordinary." --Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao "If there was a Fort Knox for Science Fiction writers, we''d have to lock Joe Haldeman up." -- Stephen King, author of The Shining, The Dead Zone, The Stand " The Forever War is not just a great Science Fiction novel, it''s a great Vietnam war novel - and a great war novel, without qualification- that is also Science Fiction. A classic to grace either genre." --James Sallis, author of The Long Legged Fly, Drive, Cripple Creek "FOREVER WAR is brilliant--one of the most influential war novels of our time. That it happens to be set in the future only broadens and enhances its message." --Greg Bear, author of Moving Mars, Eon, The Forge of God "A parable whose lessons are needful learning once more." --John Scalzi, author of Old Man''s War, The Ghost Brigades, Zoe''s Tale "I first read this twenty years ago and have never forgotten the wonder and fury it kindled at the time. Anyone who talks about the glory of war has obviously never read it. A beautifully detailed and intensely personal account of a conflict which lasts for over a thousand years, as told by one grunt who lives through it all. Only a writer as skillfull and knowledgeable as Haldeman could use war''s dark glamour to lure the reader in and then deplou the sam fascination to show just what kind of effect this orchestrated barbarism can have on the human soul." --Peter F. Hamilton, author of Pandora''s Star, Judas Unchained, The Dreaming Void "In a literature of ideas, The Forever War is a titan: a book filled with mind-bending ideas about relatavistic time-distortion and world-shaking ideas about the futility of war. In today''s world, where we think declaring war on abstract nouns like TERROR is a winning strategy, we need THE FOREVER WAR." --Cory Doctorow, author of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Little Brother X "It is to the Vietnam War what Catch-22 was to World War II, the definitive, bleakly comic satire." --Thomas M. Disch, author of Camp Concentration, 334 " The Forever War does what the very best science fiction does. It deals with extremes both societal and teleological; it places a frame around humankind''s place in the universe to show us what is outside the frame; and it functions simultaneously at the literal and metaphorical level. Inarguably one of the genre''s great novels, it is also among the finest novels ever written about war." --James Sallis, author of The Long Legged Fly, Drive, Cripple Creek, The Forever War does what the very best science fiction does. It deals with extremes both societal and teleological; it places a frame around humankind's place in the universe to show us what is outside the frame; and it functions simultaneously at the literal and metaphorical level. Inarguably one of the genre's great novels, it is also among the finest novels ever written about war., "To say thatThe Forever Waris the best science fiction war novel ever written is to damn it with faint praise. It is, for all its techno-extrapolative brilliance, as fine and woundingly genuine a war story as any I've read." --William Gibson, author ofNeuromancer, Spook Country "There are a handful of moments when an American science fiction novel abruptly and seemingly effortlessly satisfied every possible expectation conveyed not only by the genre's ambitions, but of those of the whole literary landscape with which it was contemporary: Sturgeon'sMore Than Human, Dick'sThe Man In The High Castle, LeGuin'sDispossessed, Gibson'sNeuromancer.The Forever Waris one such book, and like those others still carries with it that air of recognition and possibility." --Jonathan Lethem, author ofGun With Occcasional Music, Fortress of Solitude "Perhaps the most important war novel written since Vietnam . . . Haldeman, a veteran, is a flat-out visionary . . . and protagonist William Mandella's attempt to survive and remain human in the face of an absurd almost endless war is harrowing hilarious heartbreaking and true . . . like all the best works of literature THE FOREVER WAR takes you apart and then, before you can turn that last page, puts you back together: better, wiser, more human. Simply extraordinary." --Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prize winning author ofThe Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao "If there was a Fort Knox for Science Fiction writers, we'd have to lock Joe Haldeman up." --Stephen King, author ofThe Shining, The Dead Zone, The Stand "The Forever Waris not just a great Science Fiction novel, it's a great Vietnam war novel - and a great war novel, without qualification- that is also Science Fiction. A classic to grace either genre." --Iain M. Banks, author ofUse of Weapons, The Player of Games, Matter "FOREVER WAR is brilliant--one of the most influential war novels of our time. That it happens to be set in the future only broadens and enhances its message." --Greg Bear, author ofMoving Mars, Eon, The Forge of God "A parable whose lessons are needful learning once more." --John Scalzi, author ofOld Man's War, The Ghost Brigades, Zoe's Tale "I first read this twenty years ago and have never forgotten the wonder and fury it kindled at the time. Anyone who talks about the glory of war has obviously never read it. A beautifully detailed and intensely personal account of a conflict which lasts for over a thousand years, as told by one grunt who lives through it all. Only a writer as skillfull and knowledgeable as Haldeman could use war's dark glamour to lure the reader in and then deplou the sam fascination to show just what kind of effect this orchestrated barbarism can have on the human soul." --Peter F. Hamilton, author ofPandora's Star, Judas Unchained, The Dreaming Void "In a literature of ideas,The Forever Waris a titan: a book filled with mind-bending ideas about relatavistic time-distortion and world-shaking ideas about the futility of war. In today's world, where we think declaring war on abstract nouns like TERROR is a winning strategy, we need THE FOREVER WAR." --Cory Doctorow, author ofDown and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Little Brother X "It is to the Vietnam War whatCatch-22was to World War II, the definitive, bleakly comic satire." --Thomas M. Disch, author ofCampConcentration, 334 "The Forever Wardoes what the very best science fiction does. It deals with extremes both societal and teleological; it places a frame around humankind's place in the universe to show us what is out, "To say that The Forever War is the best science fiction war novel ever written is to damn it with faint praise. It is, for all its techno-extrapolative brilliance, as fine and woundingly genuine a war story as any I''ve read." -- William Gibson , author of Neuromancer, Spook Country "There are a handful of moments when an American science fiction novel abruptly and seemingly effortlessly satisfied every possible expectation conveyed not only by the genre''s ambitions, but of those of the whole literary landscape with which it was contemporary: Sturgeon''s More Than Human , Dick''s The Man In The High Castle , LeGuin''s Dispossessed , Gibson''s Neuromancer . The Forever War is one such book, and like those others still carries with it that air of recognition and possibility." -- Jonathan Lethem , author of Gun With Occcasional Music, Fortress of Solitude "Perhaps the most important war novel written since Vietnam . . . Haldeman, a veteran, is a flat-out visionary . . . and protagonist William Mandella''s attempt to survive and remain human in the face of an absurd almost endless war is harrowing hilarious heartbreaking and true . . . like all the best works of literature THE FOREVER WAR takes you apart and then, before you can turn that last page, puts you back together: better, wiser, more human. Simply extraordinary." -- Junot Diaz , Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao "If there was a Fort Knox for Science Fiction writers, we''d have to lock Joe Haldeman up." -- Stephen King , author of The Shining, The Dead Zone, The Stand " The Forever War is not just a great Science Fiction novel, it''s a great Vietnam war novel - and a great war novel, without qualification- that is also Science Fiction. A classic to grace either genre." -- Iain M. Banks , author of Use of Weapons, The Player of Games, Matter "FOREVER WAR is brilliant--one of the most influential war novels of our time. That it happens to be set in the future only broadens and enhances its message." -- Greg Bear , author of Moving Mars, Eon, The Forge of God "A parable whose lessons are needful learning once more." -- John Scalzi , author of Old Man's War, The Ghost Brigades, Zoe's Tale "I first read this twenty years ago and have never forgotten the wonder and fury it kindled at the time. Anyone who talks about the glory of war has obviously never read it. A beautifully detailed and intensely personal account of a conflict which lasts for over a thousand years, as told by one grunt who lives through it all. Only a writer as skillfull and knowledgeable as Haldeman could use war''s dark glamour to lure the reader in and then deplou the sam fascination to show just what kind of effect this orchestrated barbarism can have on the human soul." -- Peter F. Hamilton , author of Pandora's Star, Judas Unchained, The Dreaming Void "In a literature of ideas, The Forever War is a titan: a book filled with mind-bending ideas about relatavistic time-distortion and world-shaking ideas about the futility of war. In today''s world, where we think declaring war on abstract nouns like TERROR is a winning strategy, we need THE FOREVER WAR." -- Cory Doctorow , author of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Little Brother X "It is to the Vietnam War what Catch-22 was to World War II, the definitive, bleakly comic satire." -- Thomas M. Disch , author of Camp Concentration , 334 " The Forever War does what the very best science fiction does. It deals with extremes both societal and teleological; it places a frame around humankind''s place in the universe to show us what is outside the frame; and it functions simultaneously at the literal and metaphorical level. Inarguably one of the genre''s great novels, it is also among the finest novels ever written about war." -- James Sallis , author of The Long Legged Fly, Drive, Cripple Creek, To say that The Forever War is the best science fiction war novel ever written is to damn it with faint praise. It is, for all its techno-extrapolative brilliance, as fine and woundingly genuine a war story as any I've read., In a literature of ideas, The Forever War is a titan: a book filled with mind-bending ideas about relatavistic time-distortion and world-shaking ideas about the futility of war. In today's world, where we think declaring war on abstract nouns like TERROR is a winning strategy, we need THE FOREVER WAR., Perhaps the most important war novel written since Vietnam . . . Haldeman, a veteran, is a flat-out visionary . . . and protagonist William Mandella's attempt to survive and remain human in the face of an absurd almost endless war is harrowing hilarious heartbreaking and true . . . like all the best works of literature THE FOREVER WAR takes you apart and then, before you can turn that last page, puts you back together: better, wiser, more human. Simply extraordinary., There are a handful of moments when an American science fiction novel abruptly and seemingly effortlessly satisfied every possible expectation conveyed not only by the genre's ambitions, but of those of the whole literary landscape with which it was contemporary: Sturgeon's More Than Human , Dick's The Man In The High Castle , LeGuin's Dispossessed , Gibson's Neuromancer . The Forever War is one such book, and like those others still carries with it that air of recognition and possibility.
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SynopsisThe monumental Hugo and Nebula award winning SF classic-- Featuring a new introduction by John Scalzi The Earth's leaders have drawn a line in the interstellar sand--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..., Joe Haldeman's monumental Hugo and Nebula award winning SF classic The Forever War -- Featuring a new introduction by John Scalzi The Earth's leaders have drawn a line in the interstellar sand--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...
LC Classification NumberPS3558.A353F67 2009
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- 11 Sep, 2019
Both a Science Fiction Work and an Allegory to The Evils of War
This epic is a natural segue into other classic science fiction books, most notably I Soldier; Starship Troopers The Old Man War and The Stars My Destination. These works are paid homage to by The Forever War, who reciprocates the homages. A mandatory addition to the pantheon of classic military science fiction worksVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 03 Jun, 2018
A must for ANYONE in the military
A super fun and thought provoking read, this book goes deeper into the "every day" of military life. Irregardless of your branch and job, you will appreciate the display of everything from the humor to the illogical military training shown here.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 05 Dec, 2024
Great condition, one of the best books I...
Great condition, one of the best books I have ever read.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 24 Mar, 2017
Excellent Book!
Read a review on Reddit about the Forever War, and had to buy it. So far so good!Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 24 Apr, 2024
woody review
Decentbook. Have read it beforeVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 16 Aug, 2017
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