When it was first published over twenty years ago, Joe Haldeman’s novel won the Hugo and Nebula Awards and was chosen as Best Novel in several countries. Today it is hailed a classic of science fiction that foreshadowed many of the futuristic themes of the 1990s—bionics, sensory manipulation, time distortion.
William Mandella is a soldier in Earth’s elite brigade. As the war against the Taurans sends him from galaxy to galaxy, he learns to use protective body shells and sophisticated weapons. He adapts to the cultures and terrains of distant outposts. But with each month in space, years are passing on Earth. Where will he call home when—and if—the Forever War ends?
Narrator George Wilson’s performance conveys all the imaginative technology and human drama of The Forever War. Set against a backdrop of vivid battle scenes, this absorbing work asks provocative questions about the very nature of war.
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“To say that The Forever War is the best science fiction war novel ever written is to damn it with faint praise. It is, for all its techno-extrapolative brilliance, as fine and woundingly genuine a war story as any I’ve read.”
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William Gibson, author of Neuromancer