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. 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. 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. 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. Based in part on the author’s experiences in Vietnam, The Forever War is regarded as one of the greatest military science fiction novels ever written, capturing the alienation that servicemen.
The monumental Hugo and Nebula award winning SF classic- Featuring a new introduction by John Scalzi The thing is, Forever War is legitimately in the conversation for the best SF book ever written, like top 10 imho, it is fast paced, enjoyable and says something about the world around us that is profound and makes you think. "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".
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