A soldier experiences the toll of interstellar war against a deadly alien foe in this Hugo and Nebula Award-winning science fiction masterpiece.

In this novel, a landmark of science fiction that began as an MFA thesis for the Iowa Writers' Workshop and went on to become an award-winning classic -- inspiring a play, a graphic novel, and most recently an in-development film -- man has taken to the stars, and soldiers fighting the wars of the future return to Earth forever alienated from their home.

Conscripted into service for the United Nations Exploratory Force, a highly trained unit built for revenge, physics student William Mandella fights for his planet light years away against the alien force known as the Taurans. "Mandella's attempt to survive and remain human in the face of an absurd, almost endless war is harrowing, hilarious, heartbreaking, and true," says Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Junot Díaz -- and because of the relative passage of time when one travels at incredibly high speed, the Earth Mandella returns to after his two-year experience has progressed decades and is foreign to him in disturbing ways...

Now celebrating its 50th anniversary, The Forever War is based in part on the author's experiences in Vietnam. It is regarded as one of the greatest military science fiction novels ever written, capturing the alienation that servicemen and women experience even now upon returning home from battle. This book shines a light not only on the culture of the 1970s in which it was written, but also on our potential future. "To say that The Forever War is the best science fiction war novel ever written is to damn it with faint praise. It is... as fine and woundingly genuine a war story as any I've read" (William Gibson).

This ebook features an illustrated biography of Joe Haldeman including rare images from the author's personal collection

• We started tracking this book on November 15, 2014.
• This book was $6.39 when we started tracking it.
• The price of this book has changed 200 times in the past 3,687 days.
• The current price of this book is $2.99 last checked 14 hours ago.
• This book is at its lowest price in the past six months.
• This lowest price this book has been offered at in the past year is $1.99.
• The lowest price to date was $0.25 last reached on December 5, 2016.
• This book has been $0.25 one time since we started tracking it.
• The highest price to date was $11.99 last reached on November 27, 2024.
• This book has been $11.99 9 times since we started tracking it.

• Science Fiction & Fantasy

• Text-to-Speech: Disabled
• Lending: Disabled
• Print Length: 292 Pages
• File Size: 6,568 KB