The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)

278 pages

English language

Published Feb. 7, 2003 by Harper.

ISBN:
978-0-06-051086-2
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The Forever War (1974) is a military science fiction novel by American author Joe Haldeman, telling the contemplative story about human soldiers fighting an interstellar war against an alien civilization known as the Taurans. It won the Nebula Award in 1975 and the Hugo and Locus awards in 1976. Forever Free (1999) and Forever Peace (1997) are respectively, direct and thematic sequel novels. The novella A Separate War (1999) is another sequel of sorts, occurring simultaneously with the final portion of The Forever War. Informally, the novels comprise The Forever War series; the novel also inspired a comic book and a board game. The Forever War is the first title in the SF Masterworks series.

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Review of 'The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)' on 'Goodreads'

While neither the ordinance nor the writing was anything out of the ordinary, there was nevertheless something compelling about this story. the 'hops', for want of a better phrase, did provide a fascinating glimpse into a rather divergent potential future. The military stuff was also quite good, though not anything overly new - but this book was originally written quite some time ago.

There's more of the same, so I'm told. One day, assuredly.

Review of 'La Guerre éternelle' on 'Goodreads'

Salut, bien longtemps après avoir lu l’excellente BD en trois tomes, j’ai enfin lu l’excellent roman La guerre Eternelle de[a:Joe Halderman], et je n’ai pas été déçu : c’est nettement plus fin que la bd, et voici pourquoi (ah oui, au fait, au cas où vous ne le sauriez pas déja, il risque d’y avoir quelques spoilers).
Ah, non tiens, d’abord, je vais déja dire pourquoi c’est un bon roman. Ils sont peu nombreux, les romans qui nous mettent entre les mains un bon paradoxe temporel vu du côté du cobaye qu’on envoie dans l’avenir. Et celui-ci nous place dans la peau d’un soldat (qui raconte tout à la première personne avec quelques apartés au lecteur) qui vit la première guerre extra-terrestre (c’est-à-dire opposant la terre à des aliens). Cette guerre commence en 1997 pour s’achever 1137 ans (environ) plus tard. Et durant tout ce temps, le brave William Mandela, …

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