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Joe Haldeman’s service in Vietnam was formative in his creation of a beautiful, melancholy, tired book about the redundancy and inanity of modern warfare. The science fiction backdrop is only that, with intense focus given to the interpersonal connection of gifted military recruits. These elite fighters die gruesomely in training exercises, accidents, out of negligence, or at the hands of the mysterious Tauran enemy. With whom they cannot communicate and hav ...more
Joe Haldeman’s service in Vietnam was formative in his creation of a beautiful, melancholy, tired book about the redundancy and inanity of modern warfare. The science fiction backdrop is only that, with intense focus given to the interpersonal connection of gifted military recruits. These elite fighters die gruesomely in training exercises, accidents, out of negligence, or at the hands of the mysterious Tauran enemy. With whom they cannot communicate and hav ...more
Love this book! A play on Vietnam with time travel and spaceships. Heavy.
Wow, what a book. This is the sci-fi I love, one that focuses on character and events rather than technology. The ideas of this book are amazingly complex, and yet Halderman manages to condense them into stunning prose. I think I'll have to read this again sometime, it's quite a novel.
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slow start. 3.5/5
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