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The Forever War av Joe Haldeman
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The Forever War (urspr publ 1974; utgåvan 2014)

av Joe Haldeman

Serier: Forever War (1)

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Private William Mandella is a hero in spite of himself -- a reluctant conscript drafted into an elite military unit, and propelled through space and time to fight in a distant thousand-year conflict. He never wanted to go to war, but the leaders on Earth have drawn a line in the interstellar sand -- despite the fact that their fierce alien enemy is unknowable, unconquerable, and very far away. So Mandella will perform his duties without rancor and even rise up through the military's ranks . . . if he survives. But the true test of his mettle will come when he returns to Earth. Because of the time dilation caused by space travel the loyal soldier is aging months, while his home planet is aging centuries -- and the difference will prove the saying: you never can go home.… (mer)
Medlem:saltmanz
Titel:The Forever War
Författare:Joe Haldeman
Info:Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy (2014), 292 pages
Samlingar:eBooks, On Kindle (SMZbooks), On Kindle (SMZbooksPPW)
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Taggar:ebook, acquired 2017, purchased from Amazon, sci-fi, 111SciFi, e+tree

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Det eviga kriget av Joe Haldeman (1974)

  1. 214
    Stjärnsoldaten av Robert A. Heinlein (infiniteletters, goodiegoodie)
  2. 80
    Old Man's War av John Scalzi (JulesJones)
    JulesJones: Two books which examine in different ways what happens to the recruits in an interstellar war who by the very nature of their service can never go back to their home culture.
  3. 10
    Armor av John Steakley (amysisson, RASinfo)
    RASinfo: Perfect read for the story and ideas of the same theme.
  4. 10
    The Ethos Effect av L. E. Modesitt, Jr. (thejazzmonger)
    thejazzmonger: Good characters and a story with intelligence and action. It makes you think, like every Haldeman book does.
  5. 22
    Forever Peace av Joe Haldeman (sturlington)
    sturlington: Forever Peace is a thematic sequel to The Forever War.
  6. 11
    A Canticle for Leibowitz av Walter M. Miller Jr. (sturlington)
  7. 01
    Österns skuggor av Elizabeth Ann Scarborough (LamontCranston)
    LamontCranston: The Forever War was inspired by Haldemans experiences in Vietnam, Scarborough writes about her experiences in Vietnam directly.
  8. 14
    Dauntless av Jack Campbell (amysisson)
    amysisson: First in a series of thoughtful military SF with great FTL tactical details.
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Very interesting book. Thought provoking. ( )
  Lewis.Noles | Mar 23, 2024 |
It was almost enjoyable... just... not quite. It was very narrative - the main character just described everything as if it were the, ah, author speaking. It's usually more enjoyable to read books where the characters are at least pretending to be fictional, and not just an author-cutout. That, and, there is some quasi-social foolishness about sexuality and an underlying misogyny. Women are there for a specific purpose and while the author writes it as if the sexes are equal, his females were just men described in text as women - I am fairly confident that women aren't going to be okay to be "assigned" mandatory sex partners on their downtime. ( )
  crazybatcow | Feb 25, 2024 |
Overall good with some interesting ideas, but I think I saw the book hyped too much before I read it. I expected more ... feels kinda rushed and as if more could have been made of the good ideas. Maybe the second and third book will enrich the story a bit... ( )
  rendier | Jan 25, 2024 |
Drawing on his own experiences in Vietnam war, author gives a very good picture of how getting enlisted for a long war with the enemy nobody understands gets that person estranged from his homeland and people he lived with. How time mercilessly goes by and soon that same soldier, drafted by his government gets back to his homeland to find it completely changed and incomprehensible. He cannot manage to handle that level of change and becomes for all means and purposes unfit for civilian life.

All of the above happens to our main character. Enlisted to fight the war against the alien race mere distances that his unit needs to cover in near-to-light-speed ships means that what seems like years to him subjectively on Earth it becomes decades and then centuries.

Very soon society as he knows it does not exist any more and his ability to function in new environments decrease - his fellow men and civilization in general become more and more exotic very much like distant aliens and space battlegrounds he fought them on.
So he returns back to the fray because people in the military still resemble what he remembers (at least some of them) and in case of any differences they still share the same goal - to survive in the brutal war - and on the battlefield this is the link that bonds the people. Through all that time our hero tries to avoid bloodshed as much as possible and finally sees the light at the end of the long, long tunnel.

Excellent book about trying to keep ones sanity in the war and estrangement between society and those that very same society sent out to fight for it to the point that these others are no longer even considered normal parts of the society.

Highly recommended to all SF fans. ( )
  Zare | Jan 23, 2024 |
Expected more from a Nebula and Hugo award winner. However, annual awards do HAVE to be given out every year, so who knows what to expect.
Haldeman's style is fine, not proper prose, but just nice enough. The story was the problem: It never went anywhere. It is also a lot like Starship Troopers, like that combined with space travel time and aging in OS Card's Ender series. The Forever War differs from Heinlein's version in that the war keeps continuing. That might have some meaning, but it is not a pleasant read. ( )
  MXMLLN | Jan 12, 2024 |
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I got to re-reading it last night (for the first time in nearly 20 years) and couldn't put it down.
tillagd av lampbane | ändraBoing Boing, Cory Doctorow (Mar 30, 2003)
 

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Private William Mandella is a hero in spite of himself -- a reluctant conscript drafted into an elite military unit, and propelled through space and time to fight in a distant thousand-year conflict. He never wanted to go to war, but the leaders on Earth have drawn a line in the interstellar sand -- despite the fact that their fierce alien enemy is unknowable, unconquerable, and very far away. So Mandella will perform his duties without rancor and even rise up through the military's ranks . . . if he survives. But the true test of his mettle will come when he returns to Earth. Because of the time dilation caused by space travel the loyal soldier is aging months, while his home planet is aging centuries -- and the difference will prove the saying: you never can go home.

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