![]() Haldeman flips this sentiment and changes the world the soldiers return to. It’s not their world that changes, it’s them. I have not spoken at length with a war veteran, nor have I read in-depthly about the experiences of war veterans after they return from a tour, but I do understand the general sentiment that a soldier has a rough time adapting to their previous life because of their experiences during their tour. Spoilers ahead.Ĭover published by Orion Publishing in 1999. What I didn’t expect was it’s accessibility to someone who did not live through the Vietnam era (such as myself) and the feminism featured therein. ![]() ![]() I went into this story knowing it was a commentary on the Vietnam War. The novel tells the story of William Mandella, a physics graduate drafted to fight an interstellar war against the Taurans, an alien race suspected of destroying several spaceships carrying human colonists. Written in 1974, the novel went on to win both the Hugo and Nebula awards. ![]() ![]() This was my first impression of The Forever War by Joe Haldeman. There will be gore, and you won’t be surprised at the presence of the gore, but the gore will still surprise you when it shrieks out of the brush in all its naked glory. You ever watch a movie from the Vietnam era? There’s this lingering feeling prominent at the beginning that the narrative will set you up to feel for this batch of characters and then kill most of them in super brutal ways. ![]()
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