The Forever War

by Joe Haldeman

Surely he had nothing so primitive and unmilitary as a will to live.

‘I see.’ And it was making me a little queasy. Doctors don’t seem to realize that most of us are perfectly content not having to visualize ourselves as animated bags of skin filled with obscene glop.

Sitting here in a bar with an asexual cyborg who is probably the only other normal person on the whole goddamned planet.