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Summary: Mind Altering Drug
Review: This book is beyond descriptions like good, great, etc. -- simply put it has enough intellectual and emotional energy to change the way you think about the meaning of life in a modern society. If you haven't read it you've missed a key literary event.
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Summary: Stretch your mind
Review: This is the first book I have run into that deals with the effects of time dialation on a very personal level. This is the story of a soldier who fights in a conflict whose battles from the standpoint of Earth are decades apart. However due to the fact he has to travel at relativistic speeds in between these encounters, he experiences only months. Clear your schedule, this is a fantastic fast-paced read that was well deserving of the literary awards it received.
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Summary: AWESOME!!!!
Review: Very cruel, very blunt, totally believable view of a possible future. The scientific details make think for a long time after reading it.
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Summary: One Way Time Travel Meets Catch-22
Review: Once we understood (or think we understand) the scientific principal, all of us at some time have tried to imagine what it would be like to travel close to the speed of light, and come back to Earth 100 years, 500 years, a thousand years later... watch our culture evolve, really see where we are going. We read science fiction, in large part, so we can do this very thing vicariously through the imagination of others. This book embodies that idea: because of the supposed primary plot, a war with an alien race, the main character must deal with all the pitfalls and surprises of one-way time travel. Haldeman proposes many possible futures, and manages to keep them fresh. Some of the old cliches are there (1984-isms, Brave New World-isms), but they are explored with wildly different slants and colorful commentary. The actual war, and the kind of commentary on it you might expect from a veteran of America's most unpopular militaristic undertaking, is an interwoven story that is almost as interesting as the time hopping, though not quite. The only drawbacks of this book? It is too short, perhaps, and too green. The ideas spark wonderful thoughts, but they just barely get up steam when the image changes. We are given massive space-craft in a page or three, an alien race in a bug-eyed description, a future utopian of cloned humans in a brief paragraph. But the quickness does not subtract to the overall wonder in the book. An excellent read, and very much worth your time.
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Summary: Great!
Review: What can I say that hasn't already been said? Read this novel.
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Summary: An excellent read
Review: This book was a great read, and one I recommend. Firstly, it is rather quick. Battles are intense, and the scenes in between are fascinating, yet don't drive the overall story into the ground. Perhaps my favorite aspect is the culture shock induced by time dilation. We get glimpses of a stranger and ever changing future through the eyes of someone seemingly unchanged. This is even more interesting if taken as a parable about returning from Vietnam to a much-changed country. And it is interesting to watch the soldier attempt to comprehend and battle a totally alien society while trying to live in a society at home that is becoming increasingly alien to him. This is a fast-paced book that thoroughly entertains.
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Summary: A new Trade paper back coming out
Review: I was looking to buy a new copy of The Forever War and was dismayed to find it was out of print. After poking around I found out that's because they are releasing a new Trade paper pack edition in September 2003. I found the old Mass-Market edition at a local bookstore but knowing a nice new Trade was coming out I elected to wait. It's nice to see publishers are still taking good care of the classics.
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Summary: If you didn't read this book, you should set that right!!!
Review: This book is one of the best book I've ever read. It's very funny and thrilling together, so if you are looking for stuff like Heinlein's "Starship troopers", this is for you the best choice. You will love the story - especially the amazing plot, sophisticated beautyfull characters and also charming world Haldeman has created in this book. These things make the book a masterpiece, you will never forget. Trust me and read that!!!
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Summary: Fast paced action with a message ....
Review: Here is a tidy piece of work for all you anti-war people out there. Haldeman revisits the ultra-violent military genre and creates a fast-paced, character portrait that is worthy of the sci-fi awards it has one. This book borrows on numerous themes but is unique because of the world Haldeman creates. The loniless and futility of army life is portrayed and Haldeman is extrapolating on his own Vietnam experiences. The protagonist works his way up the military ladder by virtue of of everyone else dying and meanwhile the pointlessness of war is threatening to shatter his world. Bottom Line: Violent sci fi book that rocks the whole way through! On par with other Hugo award winners.
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Summary: Highly recommended
Review: Brilliant novel. Highly recommended...I think the love story was, while not hearts-and-flowers and Harlequinesque, *very* believable, and I never saw anything in the book that indicated anyone was coerced into any relationship. On the contrary. In any event, I put this up there with Starship Troopers and Gordon Dickson's fascinating and equally brilliant Dorsai novels - one of the best military SF novels ever written.
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