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ISBN:
9781497692350
Series Statement:
Forever War
Content:
" Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards: A futuristic masterpiece, perhaps the most important war novel written since Vietnam (Junot Dí,/B〉 az). In this novel, a landmark of science fiction that began as an MFA thesis for the Iowa Writers' Workshop and went on to become an award-winning classic8212 inspiring a play, a graphic novel, and most recently an in-development film8212 man has taken to the stars, and soldiers fighting the wars of the future return to Earth forever alienated from their home.Conscripted into service for the United Nations Exploratory Force, a highly trained unit built for revenge, physics student William Mandella fights for his planet light years away against the alien force known as the Taurans. Mandella's attempt to survive and remain human in the face of an absurd, almost endless war is harrowing, hilarious, heartbreaking, and true, says Pulitzer Prize8211 winning novelist Junot Dí,z8212 and because of the relative passage of time when one travels at incredibly high speed, the Earth Mandella returns to after his two-year experience has progressed decades and is foreign to him in disturbing ways.Based in part on the author's experiences in Vietnam, The Forever War is regarded as one of the greatest military science fiction novels ever written, capturing the alienation that servicemen and women experience even now upon returning home from battle. It shines a light not only on the culture of the 1970s in which it was written, but also on our potential future. To say that The Forever War is the best science fiction war novel ever written is to damn it with faint praise. It is . as fine and woundingly genuine a war story as any I've read (William Gibson).This ebook features an illustrated biography of Joe Haldeman including rare images from the author's personal collection. "
Content:
Biographisches: "Joe Haldeman began his writing career while he was still in the army. Drafted in 1967, he fought in the Central Highlands of Vietnam as a combat engineer with the Fourth Division. He was awarded several medals, including a Purple Heart. Haldeman sold his first story in 1969 and has since written over two dozen novels and five collections of short stories and poetry. He has won the Nebula and Hugo Awards for his novels, novellas, poems, and short stories, as well as the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, the Locus Award, the Rhysling Award, the World Fantasy Award, and the James Tiptree, Jr. Award. His works include The Forever War , Forever Peace , Camouflage , 1968 , the Worlds saga, and the Marsbound series. Haldeman recently retired after many years as an associate professor in the Department of Writing and Humanistic Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He and his wife, Gay, live in Florida, where he also paints, plays the guitar, rides his bicycle, and studies the skies with his telescope."
Language:
English
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Author information:
Scalzi, John
