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| the forever war by joe haldeman: The Forever War Joe Haldeman, 2009-02-17 Private William Mandella hadn't wanted to go to war against the Taurans ....--p. [4] of cover. |
| the forever war by joe haldeman: Forever Free Joe Haldeman, 2016-09-27 “A well-written and worthy sequel to one of SF’s enduring classics”—the Nebula Award winner The Forever War—now with a bonus story, “A Separate War” (Publishers Weekly). On virtually every list of the greatest military science fiction adventures ever written, Joe Haldeman’s Hugo and Nebula Award–winning classic, The Forever War, is ranked at the very top. In Forever Free, the Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master and author of the acclaimed Worlds series returns to that same volatile universe where human space marines once engaged the alien Taurans in never-ending battle. While loyal soldier William Mandella was fighting for the survival of the human race in a distant galaxy, thousands of years were passing on his home planet, Earth. Then, with the end of the hostilities came the shocking realization that humanity had evolved into something he did not recognize. Offered the choice of retaining his individuality or becoming part of the genetically modified shared Human hive-mind, Mandella chose exile, joining other veterans of the Forever War seeking a new life on a wasteland world they called Middle Finger. Making a home for themselves in this half-frozen hell, Mandella and his life partner, Marygay, have survived into middle age, raising a son and a daughter in the process. Now, the dark truth about the colonists’ ultimate role in the continuation of the Human group mind will force Mandella and Marygay to take desperate action as they hijack an interstellar vessel and set off on a frantic escape across space and time. But what awaits them upon their return is a mystery far beyond all human—or Human—comprehension . . . In Forever Free, Joe Haldeman’s stunning vision of humankind’s far future reaches its enthralling conclusion in a masterwork of speculation from the mind and heart of one of the undisputed champions of hard science fiction. And in the bonus story included in this volume, “A Separate War,” Marygay, reassigned and separated from her lover, Mandella, continues fighting in military engagements across the stars—all the while planning how she and Mandella can reunite despite the time and space between them. |
| the forever war by joe haldeman: Forever Peace Joe Haldeman, 1998-10-01 2043 A.D.: The Ngumi War rages. A burned-out soldier and his scientist lover discover a secret that could put the universe back to square one. And it is not terrifying. It is tempting... |
| the forever war by joe haldeman: The Forever War Joe Haldeman, 2009-02-17 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... |
| the forever war by joe haldeman: War Year Joe Haldeman, 2014-12-02 A tour of duty through the worst that the world has to offer Before his time as a professor of writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, before penning multiple Nebula and Hugo Award–winning novels and stories, Joe Haldeman was a soldier in Vietnam, an experience that changed him and colored much of what he has written. War Year is Haldeman’s first novel and his first attempt to describe what he saw in Vietnam and give insight into what happened for the benefit of those who weren’t there. The minimalist War Year follows the life of John Farmer, a combat engineer, over the course of a year in Vietnam. John undergoes training, and then, along with his fellow soldiers, does whatever it takes to survive in unforgiving conditions. Powerful and affecting, War Year reaches its highest peaks as it describes with enduring truth the sights and experiences of what it was like to be in the humid jungles of Vietnam in 1968. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Joe Haldeman including rare images from the author’s personal collection. |
| the forever war by joe haldeman: The Forever War: Forever Free #1 Joe Haldeman, Gay Haldeman, 2018-04-25 The sequel to novelist Joe Haldeman, Gay Haldeman and Marvano’s epic science-fiction comic book adaptation, ‘The Forever War: Free’. “If there was a Fort Knox for science fiction writers, we’d have to lock Joe Haldeman up” – Stephen King |
| the forever war by joe haldeman: Armor John Steakley, 1984-12-04 The military sci-fi classic of courage on a dangerous alien planet The planet is called Banshee. The air is unbreathable, the water is poisonous. It is home to the most implacable enemies that humanity, in all its interstellar expansion, has ever encountered. Body armor has been devised for the commando forces that are to be dropped on Banshee—the culmination of ten thousand years of the armorers’ craft. A trooper in this armor is a one-man, atomic powered battle fortress. But he will have to fight a nearly endless horde of berserk, hard-shelled monsters—the fighting arm of a species which uses biological technology to design perfect, mindless war minions. Felix is a scout in A-team Two. Highly competent, he is the sole survivor of mission after mission. Yet he is a man consumed by fear and hatred. And he is protected, not only by his custom-fitted body armor, but by an odd being which seems to live within him, a cold killing machine he calls “The Engine.” This is Felix’s story—a story of the horror, the courage, and the aftermath of combat, and the story, too, of how strength of spirit can be the greatest armor of all. |
| the forever war by joe haldeman: The Forever War: Forever Free #3 Joe Haldeman, Gay Haldeman, 2018-06-27 The Forever War raged for centuries… but Marygay was there to see it all. During the interstellar travel that took her years, generations came and went on Earth. She eventually arrived on Aleph-10 sometime after the end of the war, when humans and the enemy Taurans were at peace. There she learned that what’s left of humanity is a hive mind, known as MAN, that inhabits 10 thousand million entities. Making use of the time paradox, Marygay spent the next 286 Earth years in the Time Warp, where she aged just one month every 10 years. This allowed her to arrive, along with other Forever War veterans, on Middle Finger. There she was reunited with her lost love, William, and free to live amongst other heterosexuals and to procreate in the traditional mammalian way. But life on Middle Finger was not as idyllic as Marygay and the others assumed and the group resolved to board the Time Warp once more. Their plan – to travel aboard it for ten years while 400 centuries pass on Middle Finger. Their hope – to return to a time without MAN and Taurans. But nothing’s ever that simple. |
| the forever war by joe haldeman: Camouflage Joe Haldeman, 2005-07-26 Two aliens have wandered Earth for centuries. The Changeling has survived by adapting the forms of many different organisms. The Chameleon destroys anything or anyone that threatens it. Now, a sunken relic that holds the key to their origins calls to them to take them home—but the Chameleon has decided there's only room for one. Camouflage delivers a riveting exploration of alien presence and the eternal quest for identity. |
| the forever war by joe haldeman: Work Done for Hire Joe Haldeman, 2014-01-07 Joe Haldeman’s “adept plotting, strong pacing, and sense of grim stoicism have won him wide acclaim” (The Washington Post) and numerous honors for such works as The Forever War, The Accidental Time Machine, and the Marsbound trilogy. Now, the multiple Hugo and Nebula award–winning author pits a lone war veteran against a mysterious enemy who is watching his every move—and threatens him with more than death unless he kills for them. Wounded in combat and honorably discharged nine years ago, Jack Daley still suffers nightmares from when he served his country as a sniper, racking up sixteen confirmed kills. Now a struggling author, Jack accepts an offer to write a near-future novel about a serial killer, based on a Hollywood script outline. It’s an opportunity to build his writing career, and a future with his girlfriend, Kit Majors. But Jack’s other talent is also in demand. A package arrives on his doorstep containing a sniper rifle, complete with silencer and ammunition—and the first installment of a $100,000 payment to kill a “bad man.” The twisted offer is genuine. The people behind it are dangerous. They prove that they have Jack under surveillance. He can’t run. He can’t hide. And if he doesn’t take the job, Kit will be in the crosshairs instead. |
| the forever war by joe haldeman: Forever War Joe Haldeman, 2003 Private William Mandella is a hero in spite of himself -- a reluctant conscript drafted into an elite military unity, 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 upon 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. |
| the forever war by joe haldeman: On the Nature of War Carl von Clausewitz, 2005-08-25 Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are. |
| the forever war by joe haldeman: The Forever War Vol. 2: Forever Free Joe Haldeman, 2018-10-23 The sequel to The Forever War - Joe Haldeman's legendary intergalactic Vietnam War parable. Stunningly realized by Marvano. The Forever War has ended and the survivors are left to pick up the pieces. But what remains of the human race struggles to find its place in the universe in the aftermath of the galaxy shattering conflict. |
| the forever war by joe haldeman: The Forever War #4 Joe Haldeman, 2017-05-17 Life on Earth is much harder and more confusing than either Marygay or William could have possibly imagined. Humanity has progressed in ways that seem barbaric and strange, and the two veterans must find their place in this new society, and conform to its norms or face the consequences. Faced with such an unpalatable choice, they realise they will never again be at home on the planet they were born on and head, once more, for the stars… |
| the forever war by joe haldeman: Worlds Enough and Time Joe Haldeman, 2014-12-02 By the author of The Forever War: In the decades following the ultimate conflict, the last remnants of humanity face extinction on a doomed voyage to a new home in the stars, in the momentous conclusion to Joe Haldeman’s acclaimed Worlds saga The Earth is no more, an uninhabitable shell following the one-day war that obliterated the population. In the decades that followed, the surviving Worlds orbiting the dead planet have become the last refuge of humankind. With the discovery of a possibly habitable planet in a distant star system, ten thousand brave colonists are preparing to depart from New New York aboard the interstellar vessel Newhome. Among them is Marianne O’Hara, who will ultimately control the fate of what remains of the human race. The momentous voyage is plagued from the start by ignorance and sabotage, and by the dark tenets of a nihilistic religion dedicated to ultimate destruction. But despite the many trials and tragedies, the spacefarers—and particularly Marianne and her loved ones—will be forced to endure. There is no turning back once the journey begins . . . for soon there will be nowhere left to return to. With Worlds Enough and Time, Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author Joe Haldeman completes his magnificent story of humankind’s destruction and rebirth, capping off his acclaimed trilogy with a truly transcendent tale of destiny, courage, selflessness, dedication, and the resilience of humankind. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Joe Haldeman including rare images from the author’s personal collection. |
| the forever war by joe haldeman: The Accidental Time Machine Joe Haldeman, 2008-07-29 From the acclaimed author of Marsbound comes a mind-bending sci-fi adventure that will have you questioning the very fabric of time itself Struggling grad school dropout Matt Fuller is toiling as a lowly research assistant at MIT when he inadvertently creates a time machine. With a dead-end job and a girlfriend who left him for another man, Matt has nothing to lose in taking a time-machine trip himself--or so he thinks. |
| the forever war by joe haldeman: The Forever War #1 Joe Haldeman, 2017-02-15 A stunning adaptation of the Hugo Award-winning novel. A story of humanity, frailty and the horrors of war. William Mandella, a young physics student has been conscripted into the United Nations Exploratory Force. As a member of an elite task force, he and his comrades are to be sent into the depths of space to battle the alien race that has recently attacked the ships of human columnists. William is witness to the harshest realities of war as training for the mission begins, and he sees that humans have taken on a fight for which they are in no way ready… |
| the forever war by joe haldeman: All My Sins Remembered Joe Haldeman, 2011-09-29 Otto McGavin is peaceful and idealistic by nature, an Anglo-Buddhist, who seeks employment with the Confederación because he believes in it and its mission to protect the rights of humans and nonhumans. The only problem is that the Confederación needs him as a Prime Operator for its secret service, the TBII, and the TBII wants Otto as a spy, a thief and an assassin. It's not, of course, a problem for the Confederación, which simply uses immersion therapy and hypnosis for Otto's training, and then sends him out in deep cover on a variety of dangerous missions on a number of bizarre worlds. But for Otto, it's a different matter: what he has to witness and what he is forced to do take a terrible toll on him . . . |
| the forever war by joe haldeman: Dealing in Futures Joe Haldeman, 2011-09-29 This stunning collection showcases 11 of Haldeman's best stories. They range through time and space from planets beyond our wildest dreams to a nightmare future Earth all too close to home. Lindsay and the Red City Blues: A story of revenge - with a heart-stopping twist in the tail. Blood Brothers: A 'Thieves World' story. You Can Never Go Back: A self-contained story from the original version of 'The Forever War', never before published in book form. And ten more sharp and startling visions of tomorrow. |
| the forever war by joe haldeman: A Separate War and Other Stories Joe Haldeman, 2006-08-01 6 years of stories from the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author. Here are fifteen stories-never before collected-that tread upon familiar Haldeman territory, as well as explore the outer reaches of his phenomenal imagination. |
| the forever war by joe haldeman: Old Twentieth Joe Haldeman, 2005-08-02 The twentieth century lies hundreds of years in humanity’s past. But the near-immortal citizens of the future yearn for the good old days—when people’s bodies were susceptible to death through disease and old age. Now, they immerse themselves in virtual reality time machines to explore the life-to-death arc that defined existence so long ago. Jacob Brewer is a virtual reality engineer, overseeing the time machine’s operation aboard the starship Aspera. But on the thousand-year voyage to Beta Hydrii, the eight-hundred member crew gets more reality than they expect when people entering the machine start to die. |
| the forever war by joe haldeman: Marsbound Joe Haldeman, 2008-08-05 Young Carmen Dula and her family are embarking on the adventure of a lifetime-they're going to Mars. But Carmen's rebellious streak leads her to venture out into the bleak Mars landscape alone, where she is saved by an angel. An angel with too many arms and legs, a head that looks like a potato gone bad-and a message for the humans on Mars: We were here first... |
| the forever war by joe haldeman: Buying Time Joe Haldeman, 2017-12-05 The Nebula Award–winning author of The Forever War explores a world where time is money—and for some, both are running out . . . The Stileman Process is a medical miracle: Every ten years or so, you can restore youth and health to your aging, ailing body—as long as you can pay the enormous fee. The scientific advancement has altered the twenty-first-century world even more than space travel. Dallas Barr is one of the oldest men on Earth, and now he needs to repeat the procedure. But while scrambling desperately for his next essential million, he meets Maria, a woman from a previous life—and makes two chilling discoveries: Not all Stileman “immortals” were created the same. And their days may be more numbered than they think . . . From the author of The Hemingway Hoax and Camouflage, and the recipient of multiple science fiction honors including the Hugo, John W. Campbell, and Robert A. Heinlein Awards, Buying Time is “a mystery/SF hybrid that exhibits the author at his most inventive. . . . The action is fast and furious” (Publishers Weekly). |
| the forever war by joe haldeman: In Peace and War Kenneth J. Hagan, 1984 A series of monographs, essays, and papers that attempt to assess the navy as an institutional expression of the American experience.--p. [xiii]. |
| the forever war by joe haldeman: The Forever War Joe W. Haldeman, 1976 Battling the Taurans in space was one problem as Private William Mandella worked his way up the ranks to major. In spanning the stars, he aged only months while Earth aged centuries. |
| the forever war by joe haldeman: Mindbridge Joe Haldeman, 2011-09-29 Jacque LeFavre is a tamer - a member of one of the tough and honed exploration teams that, since the dramatic discovery of the Levant-Meyer Translation, humankind has been able to send to the stars. And Jacque's first world is the second planet out from Groombridge 1618. It isn't an especially promising place; the planets accompanying small stars rarely pan out. But the strange and mysterious creature that Jacque and his colleagues find there, with its gift of telepathy, leads to contact with the alien and enigmatic L'vrai, and confronts humankind with an awesome opportunity - and appalling danger. |
| the forever war by joe haldeman: Lost Worlds & Mythological Kingdoms Tobias S. Buckell, James L. Cambias, Becky Chambers, Kate Elliott, C. C. Finlay, Jeffrey Ford, Theodora Goss, Darcie Little Badger, Jonathan Maberry, Seanan McGuire, An Owomoyela, Dexter Palmer, Cadwell Turnbull, Genevieve Valentine, Carrie Vaughn, Charles Yu, E. Lily Yu, 2022-03-08 From the legends of Atlantis, El Dorado, and Shangri-La to classic novels such as King Solomon's Mine, The Land That Time Forgot, and The Lost World, readers have long been fascinated by the idea of lost worlds and mythical kingdoms. Read short stories featuring the discovery of such worlds or kingdoms--stories where scientists explore unknown places, stories where the discovery of such turns the world on its head, stories where we're struck with the sense of wonder at realizing that we don't know our world quite as well as we'd thought. Featuring new tales by today's masters of SF&F: Tobias S. Buckell James L. Cambias Becky Chambers Kate Elliott C.C. Finlay Jeffrey Ford Theodora Goss Darcie Little Badger Jonathan Maberry Seanan McGuire An Owomoyela Dexter Palmer Cadwell Turnbull Genevieve Valentine Carrie Vaughn Charles Yu E. Lily Yu |
| the forever war by joe haldeman: Anatomy of Wonder Neil Barron, 2004-12-30 This classic work is an essential tool for collection development, research, reference, and readers' advisory work.--BOOK JACKET. |
| the forever war by joe haldeman: Off-World Blues Jean-David Morvan, 2019-09-17 On New Year’s Eve 2999, a peacekeeping troop ship is violently attacked. Out of 3,000 soldiers aboard, only six survive, the remnants of an all-female commando team. Battling deadly adversity, they manage to land on the planet they had departed 16 years earlier, after brokering a careful truce between the human colony and the native alien population, only to discover it now fractured by hostile indigenous freedom fighters and the human warring faction. Meanwhile, the shadow of rogue Captain Nirta Omirli — who rallied the colonists to his cause — still looms large over the planet, despite having being executed 24 years previously... |
| the forever war by joe haldeman: The Forever War: Forever Free (complete collection) Joe Haldeman, 2018-10-17 From Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author, Joe Haldeman. The sequel to The Forever War – Joe Haldeman’s legendary intergalactic Vietnam War parable. Stunningly realized by Marvano. The Forever War raged for centuries… but Marygay was there to see it all. During the interstellar travel that took her years, whole generations came and went on Earth. Thanks to special relativity, Marygay was able to wait for many lifetimes to be reunited with her lost love, William Mandella. But they, and the other survivors of the war, are struggling to find their place in the universe after the galaxy shattering conflict. Collects The Forever War: Forever Free #1-3. “A classic reinterpretation of a brilliant sci-fi novel that still feels fresher than most comics on the market today.” – Multiversity Comics “It’s an amazing military story of survival and exploration – highly recommended.” – Chuck’s Comic of the Day |
| the forever war by joe haldeman: Starship Troopers Robert A. Heinlein, 1987-05-15 In Robert A. Heinlein’s controversial Hugo Award-winning bestseller, a recruit of the future goes through the toughest boot camp in the Universe—and into battle against mankind’s most alarming enemy... Johnnie Rico never really intended to join up—and definitely not the infantry. But now that he’s in the thick of it, trying to get through combat training harder than anything he could have imagined, he knows everyone in his unit is one bad move away from buying the farm in the interstellar war the Terran Federation is waging against the Arachnids. Because everyone in the Mobile Infantry fights. And if the training doesn’t kill you, the Bugs are more than ready to finish the job... “A classic…If you want a great military adventure, this one is for you.”—All SciFi |
| the forever war by joe haldeman: Apex Magazine Issue 122 Sheree Renée Thomas, A.C. Wise, Barton Aikman, Annie Neugebauer, Sam J. Miller, Sabrina Vourvoulias, 2021-03-02 Strange. Beautiful. Shocking. Surreal. APEX MAGAZINE is a digital dark science fiction and fantasy genre zine that features award-winning short fiction, essays, and interviews. Established in 2009, our fiction has won several Hugo and Nebula Awards. We publish every other month. Issue 122 contains the following: EDITORIAL Editorial by Jason Sizemore ORIGINAL FICTION Barefoot and Midnight by Sheree Renée Thomas The Amazing Exploding Women of the Early Twentieth Century by A.C. Wise Black Box of the Terraworms by Barton Aikman If Those Ragged Feet Won't Run by Annie Neugebauer A Love That Burns Hot Enough to Last: Deleted Scenes from a Documentary by Sam J. Miller Las Girlfriends Guide to Subversive Eating by Sabrina Vourvoulias REPRINTED FICTION She Searches for God in the Storm Within by Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali The Eight-Thousanders by Jason Sanford INTERVIEWS Interview with Author Sabrina Vourvoulias by Andrea Johnson Interview with Author Annie Neugebauer by Andrea Johnson Interview with Cover Artist Thomas Tan by Russell Dickerson NONFICTION Jimi Hendrix Sang It by ZZ Claybourne Telling Stories of Ghosts by Wendy N. Wagner Words for Thought: Short Fiction Reviews by A.C. Wise |
| the forever war by joe haldeman: The Best of Joe Haldeman Joe W Haldeman, 2013 A career retrospective of Haldeman's finest work, with original story introduction provided by the author. What emerges is a stunning portrait of a writer who may be more complex and varied than even his most devoted fans suspect. |
| the forever war by joe haldeman: Terms of Enlistment Marko Kloos, 2014 The year is 2108, and the North American Commonwealth is bursting at the seams. For welfare rats like Andrew Grayson, there are only two ways out of the crime-ridden and filthy welfare tenements: You can hope to win the lottery and draw a ticket on a colony ship settling off-world, or you can join the service. Andrew chooses to enlist in the armed forces. But as he starts a career of supposed privilege, he soon learns that good food and decent health care come at a steep price. |
| the forever war by joe haldeman: Volunteers Jerad W. Alexander, 2021-11-09 “Riveting and morally complex, Volunteers is not only an insider’s account of war. It takes you inside the increasingly closed culture that creates our warriors.” —Elliot Ackerman, author of the National Book Award finalist Dark at the Crossing As a child, Jerad Alexander lay in bed listening to the fighter jets take off outside his window and was desperate to be airborne. As a teenager at an American base in Japan, he immersed himself in war games, war movies, and pulpy novels about Vietnam. Obsessed with all things military, he grew up playing with guns, joined the Civil Air Patrol for the uniform, and reveled in the closed and safe life “inside the castle,” within the embrace of the armed forces, the only world he knew or could imagine. Most of all, he dreamed of enlisting—like his mother, father, stepfather, and grandfather before him—and playing his part in the Great American War Story. He joined the US Marines straight out of high school, eager for action. Once in Iraq, however, he came to realize he was fighting a lost cause, enmeshed in the ongoing War on Terror that was really just a fruitless display of American might. The myths of war, the stories of violence and masculinity and heroism, the legacy of his family—everything Alexander had planned his life around—was a mirage. Alternating scenes from childhood with skirmishes in the Iraqi desert, this original, searing, and propulsive memoir introduces a powerful new voice in the literature of war. Jerad W. Alexander—not some elite warrior, but a simple volunteer—delivers a passionate and timely reckoning with the troubled and cyclical truths of the American war machine. |
| the forever war by joe haldeman: On Basilisk Station David Weber, 2002-08 Comprehensive Teacher's Guide available. |
| the forever war by joe haldeman: Ebola K: a Terrorism Thriller Bobby Adair, 2014-09-07 Ebola, Terrorism, and Hope In 1989 the Ebola virus mutated to into an airborne strain that infected humans for the first time on American soil in Reston, Virginia. Through belated containment efforts and luck, nobody died. Now, in the remote East African village of Kapchorwa, the Ebola virus has mutated into another airborne strain without losing any of its deadly potency. In this thriller, terrorists stumble across this new, fully lethal strain and while the world fearfully watches the growing epidemic in West Africa as Sierra Leone goes into country-wide lockdown, only a few Americans are aware of Ebola K and the danger it poses-to be the deadliest pandemic in the history of mankind. Can they do anything to protect themselves from this killer disease? Can they stop the terrorists? The Ebola K Trilogy of Terrorism Thrillers Book 1 - FREE (or it soon will be) Book 2 - due out in late autumn of 2014 Book 3 - due out in early spring of 2015 |
| the forever war by joe haldeman: Making the Forever War Mark Philip Bradley, Mary L. Dudziak, 2021-06-25 The late historian Marilyn B. Young, a preeminent voice on the history of U.S. military conflict, spent her career reassessing the nature of American global power, its influence on domestic culture and politics, and the consequences felt by those on the receiving end of U.S. military force. At the center of her inquiries was a seeming paradox: How can the United States stay continually at war, yet Americans pay so little attention to this militarism? Making the Forever War brings Young's articles and essays on American war together for the first time, including never before published works. Moving from the first years of the Cold War to Korea, Vietnam, and more recent forever wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Young reveals the ways in which war became ever-present, yet more covert and abstract, particularly as aerial bombings and faceless drone strikes have attained greater strategic value. For Young, U.S. empire persisted because of, not despite, the inattention of most Americans. The collection concludes with an afterword by prominent military historian Andrew Bacevich. |
| the forever war by joe haldeman: The Lost Fleet: Dauntless Jack Campbell, 2006-06-27 The first novel in the New York Times bestselling Lost Fleet series! The Alliance has been fighting the Syndics for a century—and losing badly. Now its fleet is crippled and stranded in enemy territory. Their only hope is a man who's emerged from a century-long hibernation to find he has been heroically idealized beyond belief.... Captain John “Black Jack” Geary’s exploits are known to every schoolchild. Revered for his heroic “last stand” in the early days of the war, he was presumed dead. But a century later, Geary miraculously returns and reluctantly takes command of the Alliance Fleet as it faces annihilation by the Syndics. Appalled by the hero-worship around him, Geary is nevertheless a man who will do his duty. And he knows that bringing the stolen Syndic hypernet key safely home is the Alliance’s one chance to win the war. But to do that, Geary will have to live up to the impossibly heroic “Black Jack” legend.... |
| the forever war by joe haldeman: A Planet for Rent Yoss, 2014-09-30 The most successful and controversial Cuban Science Fiction writer of all time, Yoss (aka José Miguel Sánchez Gómez) is known for his acerbic portraits of the island under Communism. In his bestselling A Planet for Rent, Yoss pays homage to Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles and 334 by Thomas M. Disch. A critique of Cuba in the nineties, after the fall of the Soviet Union and the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact, A Planet for Rent marks the debut in English of an astonishingly brave and imaginative Latin American voice. Praise for Yoss “One of the most prestigious science fiction authors of the island.” —On Cuba Magazine A gifted and daring writer. —David Iaconangelo José Miguel Sánchez [Yoss] is Cuba’s most decorated science fiction author, who has cultivated the most prestige for this genre in the mainstream, and the only person of all the Island’s residents who lives by his pen.” —Cuenta Regresiva Born José Miguel Sánchez Gómez, Yoss assumed his pen name in 1988, when he won the Premio David Award in the science fiction category for Timshel. Together with his peculiar pseudonym, the author's aesthetic of an impentinent rocker has allowed him to stand out amongst his fellow Cuban writers. Earning a degree in Biology in 1991, he went on to graduate from the first ever course on Narrative Techniques at the Onelio Jorge Cardoso Center of Literary Training, in the year 1999. Today, Yoss writes both realistic and science fiction works. Alongside these novels, the author produces essays, Praise for, and compilations, and actively promotes the Cuban science fiction literary workshops, Espiral and Espacio Abierto. When he isn’t translating, David Frye teaches Latin American culture and society at the University of Michigan. Translations include First New Chronicle and Good Government by Guaman Poma de Ayala (Peru, 1615); The Mangy Parrot by José Joaquín Fernandez de Lizardi (Mexico, 1816), for which he received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship; Writing across Cultures: Narrative Transculturation in Latin America by Ángel Rama (Uruguay, 1982), and several Cuban and Spanish novels and poems. |
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The Forever War (1974) is a military science fiction novel by American author Joe Haldeman, telling the contemplative story about human soldiers fighting an interstellar war against an …
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One of the very best science fiction novels of all time. An intelligent and thought provoking allegory for the Vietnam War. Private William Mandella is a reluctant hero in an interstellar war …
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The Forever War series is a series of science fiction novels by Joe Haldeman. Not all of them take place in the same future universe. The Forever War and Forever Peace both received the …
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17 Feb 2009 · 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 …
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The Forever War (1974) is a military science fiction novel by American author Joe Haldeman, telling the contemplative story about human soldiers fighting an interstellar war against an alien …
The Forever War: The science fiction classic and thought ...
One of the very best science fiction novels of all time. An intelligent and thought provoking allegory for the Vietnam War. Private William Mandella is a reluctant hero in an interstellar war against an …
The Forever War (The Forever War, #1) by Joe Haldeman - Goodreads
1 Dec 1974 · The Forever War by Joe Haldeman and narrated by George Wilson is a good old fashion sci-fi adventure! Space travel, aliens, action, battles, social changes, military intrigue, …
The Forever War series - Wikipedia
The Forever War series is a series of science fiction novels by Joe Haldeman. Not all of them take place in the same future universe. The Forever War and Forever Peace both received the Hugo …
The Forever War Series by Joe Haldeman - Goodreads
The Forever War Series 2 primary works • 6 total works Military science fiction novel by American author Joe Haldeman, telling the contemplative story about human soldiers fighting an …
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman - Waterstones
29 Mar 2010 · One of the very best science fiction novels of all time. An intelligent and thought provoking allegory for the Vietnam War. Private William Mandella is a reluctant hero in an …
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17 Feb 2009 · 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 …
