First Edition, 236 pages
English language
Published January 1975 by St Martin's Press.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-312-29890-6
- OCLC Number:
- 799289751
- ISFDB ID:
- 1911
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War is never a pleasant thing. And in a 1200 year long war, the odds of survival are close to zero. Beginning in 1997, the war with the Taurans drags on century by century. Spanning the stars at faster-than-light speeds, the troops in The Forever War age only months as the centuries zip by on earth—an earth that becomes increasingly unrecognizable with each return visit.
Private Mandella starts out as a foot soldier in this deadly conflict and ends as a reluctant major. He comes to know the futility, frustration and danger of combat with a brilliant and dangerous enemy. Joe Haldeman has a reputation of one of the very best new science fiction story writers. His work has appeared in Analog and a number of other magazines. In The Forever War he combines his recognized imagination and skill as a story-teller with his personal experience as a combat veteran …
War is never a pleasant thing. And in a 1200 year long war, the odds of survival are close to zero. Beginning in 1997, the war with the Taurans drags on century by century. Spanning the stars at faster-than-light speeds, the troops in The Forever War age only months as the centuries zip by on earth—an earth that becomes increasingly unrecognizable with each return visit.
Private Mandella starts out as a foot soldier in this deadly conflict and ends as a reluctant major. He comes to know the futility, frustration and danger of combat with a brilliant and dangerous enemy. Joe Haldeman has a reputation of one of the very best new science fiction story writers. His work has appeared in Analog and a number of other magazines. In The Forever War he combines his recognized imagination and skill as a story-teller with his personal experience as a combat veteran of the Viet Nam war. This is his first full length novel, and it is a brilliant and powerful debut.
The first review of The Forever War sums up the quality of this novel: "This war is the opposite of the one Heinlein glorified in Starship Troopers—bloody, cruel and meaningless. This is a splendid, thoughtful adventure." —Kirkus Service