The Forever War
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Verlag:Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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ePUB
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Nein
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Nein
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
02.12.2014
Verlag
Open Road Media Sci-Fi & FantasySeitenzahl
292 (Printausgabe)
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5473 KB
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50th Anniversary, Digital Original
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9781497692350
A soldier experiences the toll of interstellar war against a deadly alien foe in this Hugo and Nebula Award-winning science fiction masterpiece.
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.
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 . . .
Now celebrating its 50th anniversary, The Forever War is based in part on the author's experiences in Vietnam. It 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. This book 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 The Forever War 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).
This ebook features an illustrated biography of Joe Haldeman including rare images from the author's personal collection.
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A captivating read!
Joe Haldemann`s "The Forever War" is widely considered the ultimate anti-war sci-fi novel. Following William Mandella through an intergalactic war between humans and an extraterrestrian species, we witness the alienation of the soldier and the society he is fighting for. This topic is something Joe Haldemann himself experienced in his military service during the war in Vietnam and is cleverly emphasized by the concept of time dilation. The years the protagonist spends in his various campaigns equal centuries on earth. He tells his story in a relatable and believable way and stays a likeable character through all his experiences. A must read for all sci-fi fans who want to tackle a more serious topic.
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