The Forever War (The Forever War, #1) - Joe Haldeman

As relevant today as when first released, the award winning military science fiction classic is now available in ebook formats.

An elite military force returns after a brief interstellar operation to find that more than twenty-years have passed. During their time away Earth has changed drastically and the squad has difficulty reintegrating into the new world order. Hoping to find familiarity by re-enlisting, William Mandella discovers doing so comes with its own set of consequences.

The Forever War won all major science fiction awards including the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus. Ridley Scott, director of Blade Runner and Alien is currently adapting the classic for film. This is the author's preferred version and includes a Foreword by John Scalzi, author of Old Man's War.

Praise for The Forever War

“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 and 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, Dicks’s The Man in the High Castle, LeGuin’s The Dispossessed, [and] 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

“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 Díaz

“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 Banks

“The 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

“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

“In a literature of ideas, The Forever War is a titan: a book filled with mind-bending ideas about relativistic 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

“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 that lasts for over a thousand years, as told by one grunt who lives through it all. Only a writer as skillful and knowledgeable as Haldeman could use war’s dark glamour to lure the reader in and then deploy the same 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, and Emergence

“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, and 334

“If there was a Fort Knox for science fiction, we’d have to lock Joe Haldeman up and throw away the key.” — Steven King

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