Joe Haldeman, John Scalzi - The Forever War, A Great Science Fiction Modern Fantasy Classic Reloaded

Joe Haldeman has published the original version of his Nebula Award and Hugo Award-winning debut novel, The Forever War. It was first published somewhere in the 1970’s (certainly not by chance, as Vietnam war and its allegories were frequent subjects of novels back then), with several changes of the original story. This time, at last, Haldeman has published The Forever War the way he had always wanted it.



The Forever War takes place in the distant future. Humankind has conquered outer space and has sent collapsars – super quick spaceships – all over the solar system. Soon they have found a hostile race of aliens, Taurans, who have intended to destroy mankind. Now they are back. A physics student, William Mandella, was drafted – however, in the collapser (and in outer space) time goes by slowly: after one year of war, Mandella returns, to learn that twenty-seven years went by while he was away. He reenlists…