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This review originally published in Looking For a Good Book. Rated 4.0 of 5
I remember the first time I read this book, back when it first was published (or at least first available through the Science Fiction Book Club). It was the mid-1970's and this was only the second book I ever read, cover-to-cover in one sitting. I was completely enthralled. There were so many different angles to this book: the aspects of time; human sexuality; war;....
Forty years later and I'm reading it again to prepare ...more
I remember the first time I read this book, back when it first was published (or at least first available through the Science Fiction Book Club). It was the mid-1970's and this was only the second book I ever read, cover-to-cover in one sitting. I was completely enthralled. There were so many different angles to this book: the aspects of time; human sexuality; war;....
Forty years later and I'm reading it again to prepare ...more

I have never been a big fan of SF military novels and as much as tried to like The Forever War I found it to be uneven, especially the pacing of the novel. I did however enjoyed the first 1/3 fo the novel and in particular like the science of time dilation and a war with an unknown species called the Tauran.

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