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... story The Land Ironclads would be a must for any course. You could match it with a modern "Weapons and the Man" tale like The Forever War.
Interesting to think of people dismissing decades and decades of seminal works about futurity, as "too old" to be relevant. New is better, but only when ... ... they would be as good as this one.
2. Why haven’t I read this yet?: Ender's Game. Another fairly easy choice as Only The Forever War came close.
3. And now for something completely different: Kafka on the Shore. A couple of possibilities in this category but Kafka just edged it.
4. Wat ... ... they would be as good as this one.
2. Why haven’t I read this yet?: Ender's Game. Another fairly easy choice as Only The Forever War came close.
3. And now for something completely different: Kafka on the Shore. A couple of possibilities in this category but Kafka just edged it.
4. Wa ... ... of his works that I've read but have now gone onto Forever Free which continues the story from where it was left with The Forever War. It's generally less well regarded (I'm being polite about that here) but as I own the omnibus edition I thought I might as well carry on. The only Haldeman I've read is Old Twentieth and I really loved it. Might have to give The Forever War a try. Thanks for the review! You know I have never read The Forever War which is odd as it sounds really good. Thanks for the review.
I also second the recommendation of L.A. Confidential (although I like the film equally, very different though) The Forever War by Joe Haldeman is a first person account of an 1100 year war (although due to time dilation it only lasts 10 years for the narrator) between humans and an alien species. Starting out while still in training it moves on to the first encounter pretty quickly. Having survived ... Titles F The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
A first person account of a 1100 year war (although due to time dilation it only lasts 10 years for the narrator) between humans and an alien species. Starting out while still in training it moves on to the first encounter pretty quickly. Ha ... "Your cadre will try to keep you alive for the next month."
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
"Any more questions?" Finally started on The Forever War by Joe Haldeman. Depending on how this one goes I may jump straight into the sequels as I bought the omnibus edition. I never would have thought to rate Steakley in the same category as Starship Troopers, or Forever War. Sure same genre, but nowhere near as good a story or writing. I'm about halfway through The Forever War. The technical jargon is beyond me, but I've managed to get by by translating it into very simplistic concepts - fast, very fast, too bright, very powerful, super powerful. It's working well enough, but I don't know if all the technical stuff has any ... ... give sf another try a few years ago and was pleasantly relieved there's still some magic out there. I recommend that book: The Forever War. It's got a lot of the techno-babble of hard sf, but I remember it being almost a soft sf novel in disguise. And I remember it being a quick read. Another vote for the first Dune
The Forever War
All other sf I read was as a teenager. Other than the fact you reminded me how long ago that was, I don't take offense. Actually, thanks for the good idea; I think I will go to the library and reread some of my "favorites" to see if I'm ... ... book must have a tenuous link to one of: fire, earth, air, water and void
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Void: The Forever War by Joe Haldeman or Touching the Void by Joe Simpson
>25: flissp
"How would you say Forever Peace compares?"
The Forever War makes my list of Top Science Fiction. Forever Peace doesn't come close to making it.
My comment at the time of reading probably sums it up: "I read it, I'll probably forget about it some day."
... they're the same author until fairly recently - I remember that they were a bit silly and certainly nothing like as good as Forever War. How would you say Forever Peace compares? >6 & 9: Forever Peace does not live up to The Forever War. It's fair, at best.
BTW, it's not really a sequel—Haldeman, himself, has stated that. It just happens to share some background. #6 I've a feeling that Forever Peace may not live up to Forever War (or it'd be easier to get hold of), but I don't know about you, but I still want to find it at some point!
Yep, actually, I meant 1/2 per category and yep, that helps! :) Thank you! ... ..
If you had to pick 1 or 2 from each of your memorable reads lists above, which would they be?
I also really enjoyed The Forever War - I've been on my library waiting list for Forever Peace it's sequel, for a very long time now (I think the book must have been lost...) - have you read ... ... by Janny Wurts
D. Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
E. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
F. The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
G. Gardens of the Moon by Steven Erikson
H. Harry's Game by Gerald Seymour
I. I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
J. Jumper ... Category 10: SF Masterworks
The Forever War, Joe Haldeman
Cities in Flight, James Blish
The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester
Babel-17, Samuel R. Delany
Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
The Fifth Head of Cerberus, Gene Wolfe
Gateway, Frederik Pohl
The Rediscovery of Ma ... #88: I will check that one out. I have read a couple of Haldeman's books that I have really enjoyed, The Forever War (especially) and The Accidental Time Machine. ... works.
The top five vote getters:
Dune – Frank Herbert
Childhood’s End – Arthur C. Clarke
Forever War – Joe Haldeman
Mars Trilogy (Red Mars/Green Mars/Blue Mars) – Kim Stanley Robinson
Ubik – Philip K. Dick
I'd agree with all of ... #23 The Forever War
Fascinating premise, about how interstellar war waged at relativistic speeds would occur. Some of the social ideas in the text are now dated. ... these, see what I've missed, and pick them up for the first time.
So far this year I've done Starship Troopers, The Forever War, The Postman, and I've just started Neuromancer - and I probably have another dozen on my tbr list thanks to these sorts of lists! ... not Starship Troopers. And while the the Dorsai trilogy has its moments, it's only good if you're about 13 years old.
The Forever War is perhaps one, although I'd have to reread it to make sure. Also Life During Wartime by Lucius Shepard. I quite like Richard Fawkes novels, and SN Lewitt' ... ... Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke (I didn't like Childhood's End...)
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
The Rediscovery of Man by Cordwainer Smith (OK the collection is newer, but the stories contained in it are old enough to qualify)
and a ... ... Herbert
The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin
Star Maker Olaf Stapledon
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
I am Legend by Richard Matheson In no particular order:
Lord of Light
Foreigner
Starship Troopers
Forever War
Dune
Neuromancer
Excession
Rendezvous with Rama
Man in the High Castle
Startide Rising
I might have different opinions tomorrow. ... of the book really shows in the latter half. Excellent book, though the best of the SF Masterworks so far is tied between The Forever War and The Fifth Head of Cerberus, in my opinion.
My list of books to look at/buy is now in my library under, appropriately enough, Wish List. > I just finished Little Brother and The Forever War, both of which I enjoyed okay but for which I feel no great enthusiasm.
I have on my bookshelf The Postman and The Thief, but haven't yet decided which to tackle next. ... is his best example of this, period.
Other great uses of first person off the top of my head, I know there are more.
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
Roadside Picnic by Arkadi & Boris Strugatsky
The Artificial Kid by Bruce Sterling
A Specter is Haunting Texas by Fritz Leiber
Star ... Updated with The Forever War by Joe Haldeman. Wow. Now this is good science fiction. Got lucky and found:
*Gateway
*The Forever War
*The Sirens of Titan
*The Stars My Destination
at Blackwell's. According to them the publishers still have copies left but aren't reprinting this edition instead (they focus on their Masterworks series instead). More importantly however ... ... have lived in the era when it was written. Just because The Puppet Masters is ostensibly about McCarthyism, and The Forever War is a tale relatable to the Vietnam War doesn't mean that only those who are intimately familiar with those time periods can enjoy (and gain from) ... ... by others are ones which I would include in a top 100 list: Dune, The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, The Forever War, and so on and so forth. ... Baird
The Hitckhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams
Wildcards series under George R. R. Martin
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
The Probability Broach by L. Neil Smith
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
That's all for the moment. Not in any order and I hope a wide range of taste;
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
Dune by Frank Herbert
Past Through Tommorrow by Robert Heinlein
"City" by Clifford Simack
Old Man's War by Scalzi
Into the Storm: Destroyermen, Book I by Taylor Anderson
Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robi ... ... - Arthur C. Clarke
Babel-17 - Samuel R Delany
The Man Who Folded Himself - David Gerrold
Jumper - Stephen Gould
Forever War - Joe Haldeman
Dune - Frank Herbert
A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller
Gateway - Frederik Pohl
Hover Car Racer - Matthew Reilly
Star Maker ... ...
Hothouse
Crash
Fahrenheit 451
Tiger! Tiger! (aka The Stars My Destination)
Serpent's Reach
Old Man's War
The Forever War
The Man in the High Castle
Stand on Zanzibar
Lord of Light
oh and then there was that one... what was it called?
#63 - see, even then your choices are old. The Forever War is a response to the older Starship Troopers, and is informed by the Vietnam War. Those 19-year-old Vietnam vets are now all approaching, or over, 60. Ender's Game has never been that popular in the UK, and given Card's attitudes to ... ... something to narrow down a list that would be available to all. You want to read science fiction, well here is my favoriteThe Forever War but you say you like stories where kids have more to do with the story, perhaps Ender's Game is for you, but then you don't like the discussion of war at ... Welcome. And thanks for the reminder, albeit unintentional, that I wanted to read The Forever War soon. I really like the latest cover I saw on it in the store (yup, shallow). ... haven’t I read this yet? (and I profess to be a Sci-Fi/Fantasy fan)
2.1 Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card *
2.2 The Forever War by Joe Haldeman *
2.3 Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut *
2.4 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley *
2.5 Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. ... ... also published in "round corner edition":
*Flowers for Algernon
*Gateway
*Lord of Light
*The Dispossessed
*The Forever War
*The Sirens of Titan
*The Stars My Destination
My question is twofold. Firstly does anyone know if there were any other works published in round ... ... telepathic dragons), Say Nothing of the Dog (time travel), or Old Man's War (space).
For something a bit heavier The Forever War (space, and time travel in a sense) Beggars in Spain (genetic engineering), Grass (humans vs native species on planet, plus some other stuff)
Most ... ... Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq
Nonfiction Finalists
Dexter Filkins, The Forever War
Drew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the Civil War
Jane Mayer, The Dark Side, Doubleday
Allan Lichtman, White Protest ... ... McCarthyism - how many young people these days even know what that was? Starship Troopers is informed by WWII values. The Forever War was a response to it and the Vietnam War. That's history. You know, a "different country; they do things differently there".
There's also ... ... the surface and can get you going about militarism segueing into discussions of pre-World War I Prussia, etc.
Haldeman's The Forever War is on the other side of the argument, clearly a protest against war. Haldeman was a Viet Nam veteran and his book focuses on the inhumanity of war, the ... 'And speaking of good SF novels being turned into movies, I have high hopes for "The Forever War"'
After the pigs' testicles they made out of "Starship Troopers", to say you're being wildly optimistic would, I suggest, be putting it mildly indeed.
Anyway, for my ha'pence worth, I wouldn't ... There's an interesting discussion of "datedness" in SF in a review of Haldeman's the forever war..written a few years ago.
http://www.nicholaswhyte.info/sf/forwar.htm
"However despite the undeniable power of the core message of the book, much of the packaging is flawed. The book begins in a ... ... maybe, doing "Understand." Or maybe Alex Cox who did "Repo Man."
I think Ringworld would be pretty boring..How about the forever war? But short stories usually do better (or can be more completely covered, at least) than novels as movies. ... by Stanisław Lem
Dune by Frank Herbert
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (not including some of the sequels...)
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
Generation P by Victor Pelevin
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
Lilith's Brood by Octavia Butler (AKA Xenogenesis ... ... by David Weber
Callahan's Crosstime Saloon by Spider Robinson
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
... who robbed a store with a Klingon sword.
Weird, weird, world.
Sometimes I feel like the soldiers in Joe Haldeman's FOREVER WAR who keep coming home to a changed society, where their kind no longer fit in... ... Willis
Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
Tethered by Amy MacKinnon
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Maus by Art Spiegelman
I do not call them 'best' reads since 'best' is so ... ... Willis
Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
Tethered by Amy MacKinnon
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Maus by Art Spiegelman
In looking at the list for thus far in the year, I am ... ... in a series; I thought the premise was interesting and cared about the characters which I thought were well-drawn
38. The Forever War by Joe Haldeman - I liked this book a good deal; I read Haldeman's The Accidental Time Machine last year, but this book was not anything like that one; ... I am currently reading The Forever War by Joe Haldeman and will be beginning The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson tomorrow. 7. NYT Best books of 2008
1. The Forever War by Dexter Filkins 01/09
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9. Well, I've finished To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Farmer. It was enjoyable, but reminded me in a lot of ways of Titan by John Varley. My initial plan was to start at the beginning , but I've decided to be a little more realistic and just read the novels as I obtain them. That means that For ... The Forever War? ... by Joseph O’Neill
2666 by Roberto Bolaño
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Dark Side by Jane Mayer
The Forever War by Dexter Filkins
Nothing to be Frightened of by Julian Barnes
This Republic of Suffering by Drew Gilpin Faust
The World Is What It Is by Patrick Fr ... I've already got The Forever War, but there was a copy of Peace and War, (and I haven't got the other 2) so I bought it and Pushing Ice. It's not the first time i've got one book then bought an omnibus, I've got Orcs and Bodyguard of Lightning and a Brunner omnibus and a couple of Heinlein ... The books I've completed for my 50-Books Challenge are listed first in the order read. The remaining books include: Books I've bought and haven't read yet, some books I want to finish, plus books recommended by other LT-ers. I was going to wait until Jan. 1st to begin, but I got snowed in, so m ... ... of Men
LT 75: Looking for Alaska
gregtmills: Catapult: Harry and I ....
WillowRaven: Romeo's Ex
tokyoadam: The Forever War
seasonsof love: Dying by the Sword
Deedledee: Every Man Dies Alone
TheTortoise: I'll Cry Tomorrow
April 2009--Note that I'm reading ... ... - Robert Kurson
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9.The Forever War - Dexter Filkins Finished 1/30/2009 ... I read The Accidental Time Machine earlier this year and agree with you: it was a fun, quick read. I have Haldeman's The Forever War on Continent TBR right now, but I think it is going to be totally different from the comments I have seen about it. ... and social dislocation. Friends who are hard-core Honor Harrington fans wonder, "Where's the action?" when they read The Forever War (and, btw, Forever Peace is not a sequel). I enjoy Scalzi, (early) Weber and Moon and might agree that Scalzi is the best of them, but I never ... ... He's one of the big names. This is probably his best of the more adult books. His real strength was YA books, imo.
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman: More "hard" science fiction about the social dislocation of soldiers fighting a war where the limits of lightspeed mean they outlive all ... ... (but none of the zillion sequels)
Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game (I didn't care much for the sequels)
Joe Haldeman - The Forever War
William Gibson - Neuromancer (the book that started cyber-punk)
Alexei Panshin - Rite of Passage
David Brin - Startide Rising
Roger Zelazny - This ... Hmmm, realized I responded with a list to MusicMom41, but this is blackdogbooks thread. :-)
Putting it over in her thread. ... will be good ...
Announced on Haldeman's LiveJournal:
Fox 2000 has acquired rights to Joe Haldeman’s 1974 novel The Forever War, and Ridley Scott is planning to make it into his first science fiction film since he delivered back-to-back classics with "Blade Runner" and "Alien."
"Whoo ... Current status is 16 suggestions, one with 4 nominations, two with 3, and two with 2 nominations:
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
Dune by Frank Herbert
Cities in Flight by James Blish
Necropath by Eric Brown
Kethani by Eric Brown
The Wreck of the River of Stars by Michael Flynn
... ... as Le Guin saw it during the period in which she wrote the book. The Vietnam War threw up a lot of interesting SF, The Forever War being a good example, but this isn't one of them.
Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
From the ridiculous to the sublime. I thought this ... The Forever War gets high marks in another thread. How about adding that to the list. I have read Armor, The Forever War, and Aggressor Six, which are my husband's three favorite books. While I see merits in all three, I agree with arthurfrayn that Armor is not mind-boggling and groundbreaking for those not already interested in military SF. I like Aggressor Six better ... ... Leibowitz
Politics - The Dispossessed
Philosophy - Star Maker
Post-Apocalypse - I Am Legend
Military Fiction - Forever War
Some recommendations have already been given about several books that I would have mentioned, but I did not want to sound like a parrot.
And I won't even ... ... and my favorite, of Roth's last 3 novellas, writing like he's 30 years younger.
And exceptional non-fiction too:
The Forever War by Dexter Filkins - reading Filkins' book is like being hit by a flame thrower, a senior war-correspondent's masterful account of his 6 years on the ... ... Sheep Look Up
Norman Spinrad - Bug Jack Barron
Michael Swanwick - Stations of the Tide
Joe Haldeman - The Forever War
Bruce Sterling - Holy Fire
Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five or The Children’s Crusade
Stefano Benni - Terra!
Anthony Burgess - ... Finally, finally after a loooooong time, two bookmooches turned up for me this weekend:
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
A Pale View of the Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
Haven't bought or received a book for over a month, so I was VERY excited!! ^^ 248: If you liked Forever War, give Forever Peace a try. Forever War - Joe Haldeman - people fighting an interstellar war against aliens, and the effects of time dilation have a major effect on the war and the year that the servicemen come back. Builds up multiple eras of time extremely well, the societies depicted are extremely realistic, and lots of ... ... of the Triffids - Wyndham
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - Dick
Dune - Herbert
Fahrenheit 451 - Bradbury
Forever War - Haldeman
Foundation - Asimov
Frankenstein - Shelley
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Adams
Kindred - Butler
Left Hand of Darkness - Le Guin
... ...
- Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
- MR. ADAM by PAT FRANK
- The Word For World Is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin
- THE FOREVER WAR by Joe Haldeman
- King Davids Spaceship by Jerry Pournelle
- The world inside by Robert Silverberg
- On the Beach by Nevil Shute
... ...
- Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
- MR. ADAM by PAT FRANK
- The Word For World Is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin
- THE FOREVER WAR by Joe Haldeman
- King Davids Spaceship by Jerry Pournelle
- The world inside by Robert Silverberg
- On the Beach by Nevil Shute
... ... Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
Ubik – Philip K. Dick
The Man in the High Castle – Philip K. Dick
Forever War – Joe Haldeman
Fallen Dragon – Peter F. Hamilton
Stainless Steel Rat - Harry Harrison
Dune - Frank Herbert
Algernon – Daniel Keyes
The Dispos ... Definitely my list, with no consideration of historical import to the genre:
1)Forever War -Joe Haldeman
2)Dying Inside -Robert Silverberg
3)Ubik -Phillip K Dick
4)The Starmaker -Olaf Stapledon
5)The Pillars of Eternity -Barrington J Bayley
6)Mission of Gravity - Hal Clement
7) ... ... Chromosome; Amitav Ghosh
9.Pattern Recognition; William Gibson
10.Crescent city rhapsody; Kathleen Ann Goonan
11.THE FOREVER WAR; Joe Haldeman
12. Beggars and Choosers Nancy Kress
13. A Wrinkle in Time; Madeleine L'Engle
14. The Left Hand of Darkness ; Ursula K. Le Guin
15. ... ... a lot of audio short stories so that's hurting the totals a bit.
My three favorites for the quarter:
1) The Canon
2) The Forever War
3) Castle Waiting Bundle of 5 withdrawn books from the library for 30p!!
Vitals by Greg Bear
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
The Poison Master by Liz Williams
Hidden Empire by Kevin J Anderson
and a graphic novel Star Wars Tales Volume 4 I just reviewed an amazing military sci-fi book called the Forever War a few days ago. You can find my review here:
http://bookspirit.blogspot.com/2008/06/endless-war.html
the Forever War by Joe Haldeman
Haldeman, a veteran of Vietnam, wrote the Forever War about Vietnam. However, it could just as easily be about any war in the history of mankind, and is really about the damage that war does, and its futility. The book won a Hugo and Nebula, and deserves ... ... read, although a bit of it is review from a class I took on the Jewish Scriptures last year.
I'm still in the middle of the Forever War and I'm starting to see more and more commentary on war in general than specifically Vietnam, although there may very well be stuff specific to that war ... ... of the way through it. I'll probably buy the pocket guide on Sunday and read it over the next week.
I'm also reading the Forever War. Imagine crossing the book Starship Troopers with the Vietnam war, throw in some relativity theory for spice, and you've got the basic idea. Great book, ... So far this month I've acquired:
the Forever War
the Historian
Interview With a Vampire
Odd Thomas
The Forever War isa sci-fi novel, basically the Viet Nam war in space. A friend gave it to me yesterday, and I've already read the first 8 chapters or so. I've never read any Koo ... ... depiction of a decaying world. And the fact that a lot of the relics found are left as a mystery works quite well.
5. The Forever War - reread three times. Brilliantly executed war novel. ... I've read a few times, along with The Foundation and The Empire Novels by Isaac Asimov.
And last but not least The forever War by Joe Haldeman.
Stephen King - The Stand
Joe Haldeman - Forever War and Mindbridge
Frederik Pohl - Gateway
Frank Herbert - Dune ... the first in the series and I enjoyed it immensely. No surprises', even fewer if you have read Starship Troopers or The Forever War. Not so much an imitation but a homage to those books.
Earth's cities are being destroyed one by one by an alien race. Jason Wanders' father is dead and ... ... the first in the series and I enjoyed it immensely. No surprises', even fewer if you have read Starship Troopers or The Forever War. Not so much an imitation but a homage to those books.
Earth's cities are being destroyed one by one by an alien race. Jason Wanders' father is dead ... 20) The Forever War by Joe Haldeman (audio)
This is one those science fiction 'classics' that I've long considered reading but never got around to. Written in the 70's, it tells the story of mankind's centuries long war with their first alien contact. The entire war is told from the point ... ... Herbert
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick
2001: A Space Odyssey Sir Arthur C. Clarke
The Forever War, Joe Haldeman
Gateway, Frederik Pohl
I think that there is plenty enough variety in those suggestions for someone to find something they like.
... Winter Break:
25. The Forever War
26. City of Truth
27. Bible Stories for Adults
28. Tao Te Ching (Ursula K. Le Guin)
Spring Semester so far:
29. Christianity and the Social Crisis in the 21st century
30. Moral Man and Immoral Society
31. Religion and the Enlightenment
32. ... ... work and I share his views. It's a satirical novel, and I might add one of my favorite SF novels of all time.Yes, I agree The Forever War is the better book, but I think it's important to read Starship Troopers. I just reread it for the first time since I was a kid, last year.
And keep in ... ... years and when I did read it I found it not to be the joke that people often suggest that it is. Right after that I'd read The Forever War as a counterpoint. Then read Foreigner, Startide Rising, and Old Man's War. All that will at least give you a good taste of SF as space fiction and ... ... Things Fall Apart:Heart Advice for Difficult Times
23 a Chosen Faith
24 the Unitarian Universalist Pocket Guide
25 the Forever War
26 Odd Thomas
27 Under the Banner of Heaven
28 a History of God
29 Kaimira: the Sky Village
30 Lies my Teacher Told me
31 the Joy of Living: ... ... the whole rat thing didn’t work as a metaphor and didn’t really give me a great new perspective on literature.
6. The Forever War by Joe Haldeman - finished this January 9 and I didn’t write a detailed review, but I remember not caring about the constant movements through time ... Blindsight by Peter Watts.
Eifelheim by Michael Flynn.
Thirteen by Richard Morgan.
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman.
And one to argue over whether or not it's SF.
The Quiet Girl by Peter Hoeg. I say it's near future. 56. The Forever War by Joe Haldeman I suspect The Forever War by Joe Haldeman will always be the ultimate military sci-fi book for me. I've read some of the other "classic" military SF books, such as Armor, Starship Troopers, and Ender's Game, and liked different things about each of them, but for me, The Forever War ... ... that sorta drifted away from coherence, kinda like Dune.
I'm one of the few people I know who really didn't like The Forever War. It wasn't horrible or anything, i just didn't see what was so good.
I was about halfway through Cryptonomicon when we moved, never was motivated to ... ... realities stories)
Hyperion by Dan Simmons
Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
Old Man's War by John Scalzi
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman}
City of Pearl by Karen Traviss (1st book in a series)
The Saga of Seven Suns series by Kevin J. Anderson
Alastair Reynolds
Elizabe ... Definitely The Forever War. It's not so much tropics at that point, but just nowhere cold enough that the Pluto (actually Charon, its moon) training is useful.
Although the main characters do end up for a time on a tropical planet (possibly called Heaven?) to recover from injuries. ... Asimov (146)
The stars my destination by Alfred Bester (97)
The dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin (108)
The forever war by Joe Haldeman (98)
Ringworld by Larry Niven (115)
(Note, only the Author Touchstone for Isaac Asimov and Joe Haldeman worked) Re: 12 -- Oh, The Forever War! I wish I could read that again for the first time, if you know what I mean.
I just read Haldeman's The Accidental Time Machine and found it to be so-so, I'm afraid.
I'm now reading Glenda Larke's Heart of the Mirage -- only available in Australia and ... Believe it or not, but after years of reading SF I just got around to reading The Forever War by Joe Haldeman. Good solid story. I'm also about to start another one I've never read, The Boat of a Million Years by Poul Anderson. ... an author page, that I won't be able to do. (*sob*)
So... specifics. I looked at Hugo winners from the blog. I went to The Forever War, to add the 1976 Nebula to the awards. After numerous clicks on the pencil, IE error messages, being taken back to the top of the page, I finally got the ... June's list...
9. The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
10. Witchcraze: A new history of the european witchhunts by Anne Barstow
11. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
... of Steel, or Dune (first book only), or The Stars, My Destination, or Mission of Gravity by Hal Clement, or Forever War, or ... as well.
Clamairy, as the initiator of this thread, I believe that it is your responsibility to pick three or four books as potential group reads, ... ... Book - Connie Willis (plague)
Death is a Lonely Business - Ray Bradbury
his name was death - Fredric Brown
The Forever War - Joe Haldeman ... the Bob Dylan* of the Sci Fi world, for me. I will be burned at the stake for saying this.
A few personal favourites: The Forever War, I Am Legend, Babel-17, Earth Abides, Lord of Light, Flowers for Algernon.
If you haven't read 2001 I'd recommend it (or just about anything ... ... favs:
The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
Replay by Ken Grimwood
Mockingbird by Walter Tevis
Forever War by Joe Haldeman
Armor by John Steakley
Clay's Ark by Octavia E. Butler
Raising the Stones by Sheri Tepper
Neuromancer by William Gi ... On the contrary, I think it all sounds like The Forever War.
The first part sounds very like The Forever War but the tropical stuff isn't in that (it might be in the sequels). I've read 32 of the 50. I would say the only real waste of time aming that bunch was Shannara. I don't love The Forever War the way some people seem to, and I never managed to get all the way through Dhalgren or Little, Big.
My biggest complaints are: where is The Dispossessed? Wher ... ... working my way through Orion's SF Masterworks series at the moment, and have come across some fantastic books so far....
The Forever War is one of my favourite of the books I've read in the series so far, along with Cities in Flight and Gateway. I didn't find that The Stars My Destination ... American Psycho - Ellis
Hit Man - Block
Man on Fire - Quinnell
First Blood - Morrell
The Forever War - Haldeman For pleasure: the forever war by Joe Haldeman
I'm really enjoying this and it's set me thinking about what would happen now if there was conscription in the UK compared to what happened in WWI and WWII. My guess is that the government wouldn't be able to do it. The population is much more ... The Forever War - Joe Haldeman (warning: the two sequels were dreadful, as in downright embarassing)
In Conquest Born - C.S. Friedman (the sequel was readable, but it wasn't much better than mediocre, unfortunately)
Childhood's End - Arthur Clarke
The Ophiuchi Hotline -John Varley
... #22 - pickles forever! ... eme
Camelot 3000
The Dark Knight Returns
Manhunter
V For Vendetta
Crisis on Infinite Earths
Kingdom Come
The Forever War
Magician
Conan
Interview With the Vampire
Conan
Faerie Tale
Babel-17
Rynosseros
Jurassic Park
The Dark is Rising Series
The Grea ... ... I had forgotten about it (so many books ago).
I wonder if there will be a SF novel that will be to the Iraq war what The Forever War was to Vietnam? ... by George R.R. Martin
Blood Price by Tanya Huff
Lord of Light by Roger Zelazney
Staying Dead by Laura Ann Gilman
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
The ones that stick out for me are Forever by Judy Blume, I'm Christy by Maud Johnson or Virgins by Caryl Rivers. It's been well over 20 years since I've read them, but I still remember the stories. I guess that says something about how those books affected what I would be ...
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