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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
The Forever War is a science fiction novel by Joe Haldeman that tells the story about human soldiers fighting an interstellar war against an alien civilization known as the Taurans. The soldiers travel to various planetary systems in the galaxy to fight the Taurans via interconnected "collapsars" that allow ships to travel thousands of light-years in a split second. However, traveling to and from the collapsars at near-lightspeed has significant relativistic time effects, i.e. time dilation, suc
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