Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man."
An edition of The Forever War
(1974)
The Forever War
1st EOS trade pbk. ed.
by Joe Haldeman
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Private William Mandella is a hero in spite of himself -- a reluctant conscript drafted into an elite military unit, and propelled through space and time to fight in a distant thousand-year conflict. He never wanted to go to war, but the leaders on Earth have drawn a line in the interstellar sand -- despite the fact that their fierce alien enemy is unknowable, unconquerable, and very far away. So Mandella will perform his duties without rancor and even rise up through the military's ranks ... if he survives. But the true test of his mettle will come when he returns to Earth. Because of the time dilation caused by space travel the loyal soldier is aging months, while his home planet is aging centuries -- and the difference will prove the saying: you never can go home.
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Aging, Hugo Award Winner, Fiction in English, Aging in fiction, Space and time, Fiction, Space and time in fiction, Space warfare, Science fiction comic books, strips, award:hugo_award=1976, Space warfare in fiction, award:hugo_award=novel, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Fiction, science fiction, military, Fiction, science fiction, hard science fiction, Mandella, william (fictitious character), fiction, Human-alien encounters, award:nebula_award=novel, Comic books, strips, Comics & graphic novels, science fiction, Envejecimiento, Ficción, Espacio y tiempo, Science-fiction americaineShowing 6 featured editions. View all 43 editions?
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The forever war
2009, Thomas Dunne Books
in English
- 1st St. Martin's Griffin ed.
0312536631 9780312536633
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The Forever War
January 21, 1999, Gollancz
Paperback
in English
- Re-issue edition
1857988086 9781857988086
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The Forever War
February 12, 1985, Del Rey
Mass Market Paperback
in English
0345324897 9780345324894
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"The author's preferred ed. of the groundbreaking SF classic."--Cover.
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"The legendary novel of extraterrestrial war in an uncaring universe comes to comics, in a stunningly realized vision of Joe Haldeman's Vietnam War parable epic war story spanning relativistic space and time, The Forever War explores one soldier's experience as he is caught up in the brutal machinery of a war against an unknown and unknowable alien foe that reaches across the stars" --
The monumental Hugo and Nebula award winning SF classic-- Featuring a new introduction by John Scalzi
The Earth's leaders have drawn a line in the interstellar sand--despite the fact that the fierce alien enemy they would oppose is inscrutable, unconquerable, and very far away. A reluctant conscript drafted into an elite Military unit, Private William Mandella has been propelled through space and time to fight in the distant thousand-year conflict; to perform his duties and do whatever it takes to survive the ordeal and return home. But "home" may be even more terrifying than battle, because, thanks to the time dilation caused by space travel, Mandella is aging months while the Earth he left behind is aging centuries...
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