The Forever War

by Joe Haldeman

The Forever War unmistakably is indeed about Vietnam.

I think one of the flaws of framing the argument this way is that The Forever War endures in part because while it is about Vietnam, it's science fictional setting means that it doesn't have to be about Vietnam alone, but can be extended to other wars, too - especially more recent wars whose basis seems largely to be 'the economy needs it!'

Some of the new people we’d picked up after Aleph used ‘tha, ther, thim’ instead of ‘he, his, him,’ for the collective pronoun. I wondered whether it had become universal.

Sadly, no

the main thing that was wrong was that everything seemed to have gotten just a little worse, or at best remained the same.

‘You had better stop trying to live in the nineties. This may not be the best of all possible worlds, but you’re stuck with it.’