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An edition of The Forever War
(1974)
The Forever War
1st EOS trade pbk. ed.
by Joe Haldeman
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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.
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Forever War: The Science Fiction Classic and Thought-Provoking Critique of War
2022, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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The Forever War (The Forever War Series Book 1)
Dec 02, 2014, Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
1497695562 9781497695566
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The Forever War: Forever War Book 1 (S.F. Masterworks)
Mar 13, 2010, Gollancz
0575094141 9780575094147
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La Guerre éternelle, suivi de Libre à jamais: Intégrale complète
2009, Dargaud
in French
250500742X 9782505007425
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The forever war
2009, Thomas Dunne Books
in English
- 1st St. Martin's Griffin ed.
0312536631 9780312536633
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The Forever War (Gollancz S.F.)
Aug 01, 2006, Gollancz, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
0575079088 9780575079083
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La guerra interminable
Nov 04, 2002, Editora y Distribuidora Hispano Americana, S.A.
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La Guerre éternelle
August 1, 2001, J'ai lu
Mass Market Paperback
in French
2290308250 9782290308257
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The Forever War
January 21, 1999, Gollancz
Paperback
in English
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1857988086 9781857988086
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The Forever War
Apr 01, 1999, Recorded Books
preloaded digital audio player
1449842259 9781449842253
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The Forever War
February 12, 1985, Del Rey
Mass Market Paperback
in English
0345324897 9780345324894
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The Forever War
November 12, 1982, Del Rey
Mass Market Paperback
in English
0345310209 9780345310200
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The Forever War
November 12, 1979, Del Rey
Mass Market Paperback
in English
0345289145 9780345289148
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Der ewige Krieg: Science Fiction-Roman
1978, Wilhelm Heyne Verlag
Taschenbuch
in German
- Deutsche Erstveröffentlichung, [1. Auflage]
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The forever war
1975, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
in English
0297770012 9780297770015
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The Forever War
December 19, 1974, St. Martin's Press
Hardcover
- First edition
0312298900 9780312298906
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"The author's preferred ed. of the groundbreaking SF classic."--Cover.
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"The legendary novel of extraterrestrial war in an uncaring universe comes to comics, in a stunningly realized vision of Joe Haldeman's Vietnam War parable epic war story spanning relativistic space and time, The Forever War explores one soldier's experience as he is caught up in the brutal machinery of a war against an unknown and unknowable alien foe that reaches across the stars" --
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...
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