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ISBN
0312536631
Book Title
Forever War
Item Length
8.3in
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Publication Year
2009
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
0.8in
Author
Joe Haldeman
Genre
Fiction
Topic
Science Fiction / Hard Science Fiction, Science Fiction / Military
Item Width
5.6in
Item Weight
9.5 Oz
Number of Pages
288 Pages

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The monumental Hugo and Nebula award winning SF classic-- Featuring a new introduction by John Scalzi The Earth's leaders have drawn a line in the interstellar sand--despite the fact that the fierce alien enemy they would oppose is inscrutable, unconquerable, and very far away. A reluctant conscript drafted into an elite Military unit, Private William Mandella has been propelled through space and time to fight in the distant thousand-year conflict; to perform his duties and do whatever it takes to survive the ordeal and return home. But "home" may be even more terrifying than battle, because, thanks to the time dilation caused by space travel, Mandella is aging months while the Earth he left behind is aging centuries...

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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
ISBN-10
0312536631
ISBN-13
9780312536633
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Book Title
Forever War
Author
Joe Haldeman
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Science Fiction / Hard Science Fiction, Science Fiction / Military
Publication Year
2009
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
288 Pages

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Item Length
8.3in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5.6in
Item Weight
9.5 Oz

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Ps3558.A353f67 2009
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I first read this twenty years ago and have never forgotten the wonder and fury it kindled at the time. Anyone who talks about the glory of war has obviously never read it. A beautifully detailed and intensely personal account of a conflict which lasts for over a thousand years, as told by one grunt who lives through it all. Only a writer as skillfull and knowledgeable as Haldeman could use war's dark glamour to lure the reader in and then deplou the sam fascination to show just what kind of effect this orchestrated barbarism can have on the human soul., "To say that The Forever War is the best science fiction war novel ever written is to damn it with faint praise. It is, for all its techno-extrapolative brilliance, as fine and woundingly genuine a war story as any I've read." --William Gibson, author of Neuromancer, Spook Country "There are a handful of moments when an American science fiction novel abruptly and seemingly effortlessly satisfied every possible expectation conveyed not only by the genre's ambitions, but of those of the whole literary landscape with which it was contemporary: Sturgeon's More Than Human , Dick's The Man In The High Castle , LeGuin's Dispossessed , Gibson's Neuromancer . The Forever War is one such book, and like those others still carries with it that air of recognition and possibility." --Jonathan Lethem, author of Gun With Occcasional Music, Fortress of Solitude "Perhaps the most important war novel written since Vietnam . . . Haldeman, a veteran, is a flat-out visionary . . . and protagonist William Mandella's attempt to survive and remain human in the face of an absurd almost endless war is harrowing hilarious heartbreaking and true . . . like all the best works of literature THE FOREVER WAR takes you apart and then, before you can turn that last page, puts you back together: better, wiser, more human. Simply extraordinary." --Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao "If there was a Fort Knox for Science Fiction writers, we'd have to lock Joe Haldeman up." -- Stephen King, author of The Shining, The Dead Zone, The Stand " The Forever War is not just a great Science Fiction novel, it's a great Vietnam war novel - and a great war novel, without qualification- that is also Science Fiction. A classic to grace either genre." --James Sallis, author of The Long Legged Fly, Drive, Cripple Creek "FOREVER WAR is brilliant--one of the most influential war novels of our time. That it happens to be set in the future only broadens and enhances its message." --Greg Bear, author of Moving Mars, Eon, The Forge of God "A parable whose lessons are needful learning once more." --John Scalzi, author of Old Man's War, The Ghost Brigades, Zoe's Tale "I first read this twenty years ago and have never forgotten the wonder and fury it kindled at the time. Anyone who talks about the glory of war has obviously never read it. A beautifully detailed and intensely personal account of a conflict which lasts for over a thousand years, as told by one grunt who lives through it all. Only a writer as skillfull and knowledgeable as Haldeman could use war's dark glamour to lure the reader in and then deplou the sam fascination to show just what kind of effect this orchestrated barbarism can have on the human soul." --Peter F. Hamilton, author of Pandora's Star, Judas Unchained, The Dreaming Void "In a literature of ideas, The Forever War is a titan: a book filled with mind-bending ideas about relatavistic time-distortion and world-shaking ideas about the futility of war. In today's world, where we think declaring war on abstract nouns like TERROR is a winning strategy, we need THE FOREVER WAR." --Cory Doctorow, author of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Little Brother X "It is to the Vietnam War what Catch-22 was to World War II, the definitive, bleakly comic satire." --Thomas M. Disch, author of Camp Concentration, 334 " The Forever War does what the very best science fiction does. It deals with extremes both societal and teleological; it places a frame around humankind's place in the universe to show us what is outside the frame; and it functions simultaneously at the literal and metaphorical level. Inarguably one of the genre's great novels, it is also among the finest novels ever written about war." --James Sallis, author of The Long Legged Fly, Drive, Cripple Creek, The Forever War is not just a great Science Fiction novel, it's a great Vietnam war novel - and a great war novel, without qualification- that is also Science Fiction. A classic to grace either genre., FOREVER WAR is brilliant--one of the most influential war novels of our time. That it happens to be set in the future only broadens and enhances its message., "To say that The Forever War is the best science fiction war novel ever written is to damn it with faint praise. It is, for all its techno-extrapolative brilliance, as fine and woundingly genuine a war story as any I''ve read." -- William Gibson , author of Neuromancer, Spook Country "There are a handful of moments when an American science fiction novel abruptly and seemingly effortlessly satisfied every possible expectation conveyed not only by the genre''s ambitions, but of those of the whole literary landscape with which it was contemporary: Sturgeon''s More Than Human , Dick''s The Man In The High Castle , LeGuin''s Dispossessed , Gibson''s Neuromancer . The Forever War is one such book, and like those others still carries with it that air of recognition and possibility." -- Jonathan Lethem , author of Gun With Occcasional Music, Fortress of Solitude "Perhaps the most important war novel written since Vietnam . .  . Haldeman, a veteran, is a flat-out visionary . . . and protagonist William Mandella''s attempt to survive and remain human in the face of an absurd almost endless war is harrowing hilarious heartbreaking and true  . . . like all the best works of literature THE FOREVER WAR takes you apart and then, before you can turn that last page, puts you back together: better, wiser, more human.  Simply extraordinary." -- Junot Diaz , Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao "If there was a Fort Knox for Science Fiction writers, we''d have to lock Joe Haldeman up." -- Stephen King , author of The Shining, The Dead Zone, The Stand " The Forever War is not just a great Science Fiction novel, it''s a great Vietnam war novel - and a great war novel, without qualification- that is also Science Fiction.  A classic to grace either genre." -- Iain M. Banks , author of Use of Weapons, The Player of Games, Matter "FOREVER WAR is brilliant--one of the most influential war novels of our time. That it happens to be set in the future only broadens and enhances its message." -- Greg Bear , author of Moving Mars, Eon, The Forge of God "A parable whose lessons are needful learning once more." -- John Scalzi , author of Old Man's War, The Ghost Brigades, Zoe's Tale "I first read this twenty years ago and have never forgotten the wonder and fury it kindled at the time.  Anyone who talks about the glory of war has obviously never read it.  A beautifully detailed and intensely personal account of a conflict which lasts for over a thousand years, as told by one grunt who lives through it all.  Only a writer as skillfull and knowledgeable as Haldeman could use war''s dark glamour to lure the reader in and then deplou the sam fascination to show just what kind of effect this orchestrated barbarism can have on the human soul." -- Peter F. Hamilton , author of Pandora's Star, Judas Unchained, The Dreaming Void "In a literature of ideas, The Forever War is a titan: a book filled with mind-bending ideas about relatavistic time-distortion and world-shaking ideas about the futility of war. In today''s world, where we think declaring war on abstract nouns like TERROR is a winning strategy, we need THE FOREVER WAR." -- Cory Doctorow , author of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Little Brother X "It is to the Vietnam War what Catch-22 was to World War II, the definitive, bleakly comic satire." -- Thomas M. Disch , author of Camp Concentration , 334 " The Forever War does what the very best science fiction does. It deals with extremes both societal and teleological; it places a frame around humankind''s place in the universe to show us what is outside the frame; and it functions simultaneously at the literal and metaphorical level.  Inarguably one of the genre''s great novels, it is also among the finest novels ever written about war." -- James Sallis , author of The Long Legged Fly, Drive, Cripple Creek, "To say that The Forever War is the best science fiction war novel ever written is to damn it with faint praise. It is, for all its techno-extrapolative brilliance, as fine and woundingly genuine a war story as any I''ve read." --William Gibson, author of Neuromancer, Spook Country "There are a handful of moments when an American science fiction novel abruptly and seemingly effortlessly satisfied every possible expectation conveyed not only by the genre''s ambitions, but of those of the whole literary landscape with which it was contemporary: Sturgeon''s More Than Human , Dick''s The Man In The High Castle , LeGuin''s Dispossessed , Gibson''s Neuromancer . The Forever War is one such book, and like those others still carries with it that air of recognition and possibility." --Jonathan Lethem, author of Gun With Occcasional Music, Fortress of Solitude "Perhaps the most important war novel written since Vietnam . . . Haldeman, a veteran, is a flat-out visionary . . . and protagonist William Mandella''s attempt to survive and remain human in the face of an absurd almost endless war is harrowing hilarious heartbreaking and true . . . like all the best works of literature THE FOREVER WAR takes you apart and then, before you can turn that last page, puts you back together: better, wiser, more human. Simply extraordinary." --Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao "If there was a Fort Knox for Science Fiction writers, we''d have to lock Joe Haldeman up." -- Stephen King, author of The Shining, The Dead Zone, The Stand " The Forever War is not just a great Science Fiction novel, it''s a great Vietnam war novel - and a great war novel, without qualification- that is also Science Fiction. A classic to grace either genre." --James Sallis, author of The Long Legged Fly, Drive, Cripple Creek "FOREVER WAR is brilliant--one of the most influential war novels of our time. That it happens to be set in the future only broadens and enhances its message." --Greg Bear, author of Moving Mars, Eon, The Forge of God "A parable whose lessons are needful learning once more." --John Scalzi, author of Old Man''s War, The Ghost Brigades, Zoe''s Tale "I first read this twenty years ago and have never forgotten the wonder and fury it kindled at the time. Anyone who talks about the glory of war has obviously never read it. A beautifully detailed and intensely personal account of a conflict which lasts for over a thousand years, as told by one grunt who lives through it all. Only a writer as skillfull and knowledgeable as Haldeman could use war''s dark glamour to lure the reader in and then deplou the sam fascination to show just what kind of effect this orchestrated barbarism can have on the human soul." --Peter F. Hamilton, author of Pandora''s Star, Judas Unchained, The Dreaming Void "In a literature of ideas, The Forever War is a titan: a book filled with mind-bending ideas about relatavistic time-distortion and world-shaking ideas about the futility of war. In today''s world, where we think declaring war on abstract nouns like TERROR is a winning strategy, we need THE FOREVER WAR." --Cory Doctorow, author of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Little Brother X "It is to the Vietnam War what Catch-22 was to World War II, the definitive, bleakly comic satire." --Thomas M. Disch, author of Camp Concentration, 334 " The Forever War does what the very best science fiction does. It deals with extremes both societal and teleological; it places a frame around humankind''s place in the universe to show us what is outside the frame; and it functions simultaneously at the literal and metaphorical level. Inarguably one of the genre''s great novels, it is also among the finest novels ever written about war." --James Sallis, author of The Long Legged Fly, Drive, Cripple Creek, The Forever War does what the very best science fiction does. It deals with extremes both societal and teleological; it places a frame around humankind's place in the universe to show us what is outside the frame; and it functions simultaneously at the literal and metaphorical level. Inarguably one of the genre's great novels, it is also among the finest novels ever written about war., "To say thatThe Forever Waris the best science fiction war novel ever written is to damn it with faint praise. It is, for all its techno-extrapolative brilliance, as fine and woundingly genuine a war story as any I've read." --William Gibson, author ofNeuromancer, Spook Country "There are a handful of moments when an American science fiction novel abruptly and seemingly effortlessly satisfied every possible expectation conveyed not only by the genre's ambitions, but of those of the whole literary landscape with which it was contemporary: Sturgeon'sMore Than Human, Dick'sThe Man In The High Castle, LeGuin'sDispossessed, Gibson'sNeuromancer.The Forever Waris one such book, and like those others still carries with it that air of recognition and possibility." --Jonathan Lethem, author ofGun With Occcasional Music, Fortress of Solitude "Perhaps the most important war novel written since Vietnam . .  . Haldeman, a veteran, is a flat-out visionary . . . and protagonist William Mandella's attempt to survive and remain human in the face of an absurd almost endless war is harrowing hilarious heartbreaking and true  . . . like all the best works of literature THE FOREVER WAR takes you apart and then, before you can turn that last page, puts you back together: better, wiser, more human.  Simply extraordinary." --Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prize winning author ofThe Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao "If there was a Fort Knox for Science Fiction writers, we'd have to lock Joe Haldeman up." --Stephen King, author ofThe Shining, The Dead Zone, The Stand "The Forever Waris not just a great Science Fiction novel, it's a great Vietnam war novel - and a great war novel, without qualification- that is also Science Fiction.  A classic to grace either genre." --Iain M. Banks, author ofUse of Weapons, The Player of Games, Matter "FOREVER WAR is brilliant--one of the most influential war novels of our time. That it happens to be set in the future only broadens and enhances its message." --Greg Bear, author ofMoving Mars, Eon, The Forge of God "A parable whose lessons are needful learning once more." --John Scalzi, author ofOld Man's War, The Ghost Brigades, Zoe's Tale "I first read this twenty years ago and have never forgotten the wonder and fury it kindled at the time.  Anyone who talks about the glory of war has obviously never read it.  A beautifully detailed and intensely personal account of a conflict which lasts for over a thousand years, as told by one grunt who lives through it all.  Only a writer as skillfull and knowledgeable as Haldeman could use war's dark glamour to lure the reader in and then deplou the sam fascination to show just what kind of effect this orchestrated barbarism can have on the human soul." --Peter F. Hamilton, author ofPandora's Star, Judas Unchained, The Dreaming Void "In a literature of ideas,The Forever Waris a titan: a book filled with mind-bending ideas about relatavistic time-distortion and world-shaking ideas about the futility of war. In today's world, where we think declaring war on abstract nouns like TERROR is a winning strategy, we need THE FOREVER WAR." --Cory Doctorow, author ofDown and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Little Brother X "It is to the Vietnam War whatCatch-22was to World War II, the definitive, bleakly comic satire." --Thomas M. Disch, author ofCampConcentration, 334 "The Forever Wardoes what the very best science fiction does. It deals with extremes both societal and teleological; it places a frame around humankind's place in the universe to show us what is out, "To say that The Forever War is the best science fiction war novel ever written is to damn it with faint praise. It is, for all its techno-extrapolative brilliance, as fine and woundingly genuine a war story as any I''ve read." -- William Gibson , author of Neuromancer, Spook Country "There are a handful of moments when an American science fiction novel abruptly and seemingly effortlessly satisfied every possible expectation conveyed not only by the genre''s ambitions, but of those of the whole literary landscape with which it was contemporary: Sturgeon''s More Than Human , Dick''s The Man In The High Castle , LeGuin''s Dispossessed , Gibson''s Neuromancer . The Forever War is one such book, and like those others still carries with it that air of recognition and possibility." -- Jonathan Lethem , author of Gun With Occcasional Music, Fortress of Solitude "Perhaps the most important war novel written since Vietnam . . . Haldeman, a veteran, is a flat-out visionary . . . and protagonist William Mandella''s attempt to survive and remain human in the face of an absurd almost endless war is harrowing hilarious heartbreaking and true . . . like all the best works of literature THE FOREVER WAR takes you apart and then, before you can turn that last page, puts you back together: better, wiser, more human. Simply extraordinary." -- Junot Diaz , Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao "If there was a Fort Knox for Science Fiction writers, we''d have to lock Joe Haldeman up." -- Stephen King , author of The Shining, The Dead Zone, The Stand " The Forever War is not just a great Science Fiction novel, it''s a great Vietnam war novel - and a great war novel, without qualification- that is also Science Fiction. A classic to grace either genre." -- Iain M. Banks , author of Use of Weapons, The Player of Games, Matter "FOREVER WAR is brilliant--one of the most influential war novels of our time. That it happens to be set in the future only broadens and enhances its message." -- Greg Bear , author of Moving Mars, Eon, The Forge of God "A parable whose lessons are needful learning once more." -- John Scalzi , author of Old Man's War, The Ghost Brigades, Zoe's Tale "I first read this twenty years ago and have never forgotten the wonder and fury it kindled at the time. Anyone who talks about the glory of war has obviously never read it. A beautifully detailed and intensely personal account of a conflict which lasts for over a thousand years, as told by one grunt who lives through it all. Only a writer as skillfull and knowledgeable as Haldeman could use war''s dark glamour to lure the reader in and then deplou the sam fascination to show just what kind of effect this orchestrated barbarism can have on the human soul." -- Peter F. Hamilton , author of Pandora's Star, Judas Unchained, The Dreaming Void "In a literature of ideas, The Forever War is a titan: a book filled with mind-bending ideas about relatavistic time-distortion and world-shaking ideas about the futility of war. In today''s world, where we think declaring war on abstract nouns like TERROR is a winning strategy, we need THE FOREVER WAR." -- Cory Doctorow , author of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Little Brother X "It is to the Vietnam War what Catch-22 was to World War II, the definitive, bleakly comic satire." -- Thomas M. Disch , author of Camp Concentration , 334 " The Forever War does what the very best science fiction does. It deals with extremes both societal and teleological; it places a frame around humankind''s place in the universe to show us what is outside the frame; and it functions simultaneously at the literal and metaphorical level. Inarguably one of the genre''s great novels, it is also among the finest novels ever written about war." -- James Sallis , author of The Long Legged Fly, Drive, Cripple Creek, To say that The Forever War is the best science fiction war novel ever written is to damn it with faint praise. It is, for all its techno-extrapolative brilliance, as fine and woundingly genuine a war story as any I've read., In a literature of ideas, The Forever War is a titan: a book filled with mind-bending ideas about relatavistic time-distortion and world-shaking ideas about the futility of war. In today's world, where we think declaring war on abstract nouns like TERROR is a winning strategy, we need THE FOREVER WAR., Perhaps the most important war novel written since Vietnam . . . Haldeman, a veteran, is a flat-out visionary . . . and protagonist William Mandella's attempt to survive and remain human in the face of an absurd almost endless war is harrowing hilarious heartbreaking and true . . . like all the best works of literature THE FOREVER WAR takes you apart and then, before you can turn that last page, puts you back together: better, wiser, more human. Simply extraordinary., There are a handful of moments when an American science fiction novel abruptly and seemingly effortlessly satisfied every possible expectation conveyed not only by the genre's ambitions, but of those of the whole literary landscape with which it was contemporary: Sturgeon's More Than Human , Dick's The Man In The High Castle , LeGuin's Dispossessed , Gibson's Neuromancer . The Forever War is one such book, and like those others still carries with it that air of recognition and possibility.
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2009
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2009-005705
Dewey Decimal
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