Forever War (Forever War, #3) (S.F. Masterworks) (Orbit Books)

by Joe Haldeman

Private William Mandella is a reluctant hero, drafted into an elite military unit to fight in a distant interstellar war against an unknowable and unconquerable alien enemy. Mandella will perform his duties and, as he survives, rise through the ranks, but his greatest test will come when he returns to Earth. Because of the effects of relativity, every time he comes home after a few months' tour of duty, centuries have gone by on Earth, making him and his fellows ever more isolated from the world for whose future they are fighting.

• ISBN10: 0297770012
• ISBN13: 9780297770015
• Publish Date: 4 September 1975 (first published 1 December 1974)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 12 July 2000
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
• Imprint: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 236
• Language: English

Reviews

[inlibrisveritas]

This is a book where I liked the ideas that were being presented but kind of felt irratated with much of the presentation.

That being said I really love the whole time dialation idea in sci-fi, and since it's something I rarely see it was nice to see it tackled in a slightly less trope-y way.