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Haldeman - The Forever War - CD0 .nfo
General Information
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Title: The Forever War
Author: Joe Haldeman
Read By: George Wilson
Copyright: 1974
Audiobook Copyright: 1999
Genre: Fiction
Publisher: Recorded Books Inc
Abridged: No
Original Media Information
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Media: CD
Number: 8
File Information
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Number of MP3s: 173
Total Duration: 9:20:04
Total MP3 Size: 386.95
Encoded With: LAME 3.92
Encoded At: CBR 96 kbit/s 44100 Hz Joint Stereo
ID3 Tags: Set, v2.3
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Book Description
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Amazon.com
In the 1970s Joe Haldeman approached more than a dozen different publishers
before he finally found one interested in The Forever War. The book
went on to win both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, although a large chunk
of the story had been cut out before it saw publication. Now Haldeman
and Avon Books have released the definitive version of The Forever War,
published for the first time as Haldeman originally intended. The book
tells the timeless story of war, in this case a conflict between humanity
and the alien Taurans. Humans first bumped heads with the Taurans when
we began using collapsars to travel the stars. Although the collapsars
provide nearly instantaneous travel across vast distances, the relativistic
speeds associated with the process means that time passes slower for
those aboard ship. For William Mandella, a physics student drafted as
a soldier, that means more than 27 years will have passed between his
first encounter with the Taurans and his homecoming, though he himself
will have aged only a year. When Mandella finds that he can't adjust
to Earth after being gone so long from home, he reenlists, only to find
himself shuttled endlessly from battle to battle as the centuries pass.
Craig E. Engler-
Book Description
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 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 up 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.
. .
About the Author
Joe Haldeman first won the Hugo Award for his novel The Forever War.
His work includes the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novel The Hemingway
Hoax and the acclaimed Worlds Trilogy. He has won a total of three Nebula
Awards and four Hugo Awards. A Vietnam veteran who was wounded, Joe
Hadleman teaches writing at M.I.T. and lives part-time in Florida with
his wife, Gay.
Forever War
1. The Forever War (1974)
2. Forever Peace (1991)
3. Forever Free (1999)
Attar the Merman
1. Attar's Revenge (1975) (writing as Robert Graham)
2. War of Nerves (1975) (writing as Robert Graham)
2. War of Nerves (1975) (writing as Robert Graham)
Worlds
1. Worlds: A Novel of the Near Future (1981)
2. Worlds Apart (1983)
3. Worlds Enough and Time (1992)
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