03395cam a2200409 4500 562544329 TxAuBib 20220424120000.0 ||||||s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781497692350 1497692350 B00PI184XG Amazon 9e183aa0-3f2b-4646-8342-8228c353592b OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2031896 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Haldeman, Joe. The Forever War [Libby eBook] : Forever War Series, Book 1. Open Road Media, 2014. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 3826kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Science Fiction. space opera. Vietnam War. Adventure. Military. fantasy. Action. HTML:<b>Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards: A futuristic masterpiece, "perhaps the most important war novel written since Vietnam" (Junot Dí</b><b>az).</b><br /> <br /> 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 classic—inspiring a play, a graphic novel, and most recently an in-development film—man has taken to the stars, and soldiers fighting the wars of the future return to Earth forever alienated from their home.<br /> <br /> 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 Prize–winning novelist Junot Díaz—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.<br /> <br /> Based in part on the author's experiences in Vietnam, <i>The Forever War</i> 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 <i>The Forever War</i> 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).<br /> <br /> <i>This ebook features an illustrated biography of Joe Haldeman including rare images from the author's personal collection.</i>. Science Fiction. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-06-23 20:00:02. Scalzi, John. https://samples.overdrive.com/forever-war-9e183a?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/forever-war-9e183a?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/forever-war-9e183a?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)