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	The War of the Worldviews
		War, as viewed from the sidelines through the eyes of this veteran, was a noble and necessary enterprise.
		In The Forever War, mankind is engaged in a protracted conflict with the vaguely humanoid Taurans.
		War, like any aspect of human existence, should be viewed through many lenses, whether it's the cynicism of cyberpunk or the hoo-ah of a Baen mainstay.
	www.scifidimensions.com /Sep06/waroftheworldviews.htm (1466 words)

	The Forever War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Forever War is a 1975 Nebula and 1976 Hugo Award winning science fiction novel by Joe Haldeman.
		He soon becomes the 'oldest' surviving soldier in the war, attaining high rank through seniority, although not from personal ambition (he is portrayed as an eternally reluctant soldier, who acts mostly from natural talent and a melancholic sense of duty).
		The novel is widely perceived to be a portrayal of the author's military experiences during the Vietnam War, although it is set in a science fiction context.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Forever_War (1073 words)

	Reason Magazine - The Forever War
		Likewise, U.S. forces fought what looked like a war in Afghanistan, with planes bombing targets, organized groups of men shooting at each other, and civilians suffering "collateral damage." But after the Taliban were defeated and a new government was installed, this literal phase of the war on terrorism seemed to be petering out.
		Bush did not declare war on Al Qaeda or the Taliban; he declared war on terrorism, which will be with us in one form or another for the foreseeable future.
		But the open-ended nature of the struggle against it means that the war on terrorism, unlike conventional wars, cannot be viewed as a passing emergency.
	www.reason.com /news/show/28552.html (922 words)

	The Forever War (1975)
		The war is over (the clones having successfully communicated with the aliens to find out that nobody had any idea about the war's purpose), and Mandella retires to a handy planet where his old lover is waiting for him in a time machine.
		The implication from the ending of the war is that lack of communication was responsible for its long duration.
		It is also curious that he would blame the "generals" for a war in a society where the military is so much under civilian control it is hardly believable.
	www.gotterdammerung.org /books/reviews/f/forever-war.html (1824 words)

	Forever War, The - Joe Haldeman - Printed Books Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		Forever War, The - Joe Haldeman : It is supposed to be a Vietnam allegory - Haldeman served there, as a combat eng...
		Forever War, The - Joe Haldeman : War is Hell.
		Forever War, The - Joe Haldeman : The Forever War – Joe Haldeman.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /printed-books/forever-war-the-joe-haldeman (323 words)

	Agnoiologist: Rule of Law vs. Forever-war
		To say that we are either at war or must treat terrorists solely as pre-9/11 criminals is to introduce a false dichotomy.
		Just because there’s a war going on, doesn’t mean you give up the right to question the actions of your government.
		The point is that the situation isn't merely a decision between war and treating them as pre-9/11 criminals.
	www.agnoiology.com /2006/10/rule_of_law_vs_foreverwar.html (1150 words)

	Forever War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The author was a Vietnam vet and was thoroughly disgusted with war and the army, an attitude which shines through every single book he's ever written.
		The "original" serialization of The Forever War (there have been a few versions of this story) had the main character telling his tale to a reporter.
		The idea was that the war lasted 1200 years in real time and there were people who fought from begining to end.
	c2.com /cgi/wiki?ForeverWar (328 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Books: Forever War, by Joe Haldeman, Mass Market Paperback
		The Forever War is an ingenious, complex account of soldiers whose lives have been brutally disrupted by the combined effects of relativity and interstellar war.
		The Forever War is very much concerned with alienation, which assumes a cruel and quite literal form during the course of the story.
		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.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?isbn=0380708213 (1685 words)

	The Forever War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Forever War, winner of both the Nebula and Hugo Awards, is one of the most referred to novels when it comes to the Vietnam War.
		Joseph Haldeman's main influence on the novel was the Vietnam War.
		During this entire war all of the soldiers suffer from time dilation, which makes it difficult for them to adjust to the new cultures they find upon each return form battle.
	webpages.charter.net /mflagg/foreverwar.html (533 words)

	WorldNetDaily: The forever war
		War is also, by far, the most unpredictable of human activities.
		Predicting the immediate and direct consequences of the upcoming war is hard enough.
		At risk of being unpopular (admittedly a risk I've run my whole life), let me state my brief: The impending war is not only unnecessary, it's unethical, will turn out to be totally counterproductive, will serve to further erode Americans' freedoms and move them further toward national bankruptcy, to boot.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=29402 (695 words)

	Forever War by Joe Haldeman, Hugo and Nebula Award winning novel
		He never wanted to go to war, but the leaders on Earth have drawn a line in the intersteller sand --- despite the fact that their fierce alien enemy is unknowable, unconquerable, and very far away.
		But it just doesn't have the impact of The Forever War, where he so effectively illustrates the point by creating a fictional universe where the problem is exacerbated.
		In The Forever War, relativistic effects cause soldiers returning from war to find a homeland so changed over time as to be utterly foreign to them.
	members.aol.com /tishede/haldeman2.htm (904 words)

	Haldeman Back in Ambitious Form With 'Forever Free'
		Joe Haldeman has done well with the word "forever." In 1976, he won the Hugo Award for The Forever War, a classic of military SF that answered Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers from the perspective of a Vietnam veteran.
		It's a sequel to The Forever War, where relativistic starships defined a war fought over centuries by culturally dislocated soldiers.
		When the war finally ends after a thousand years, humanity, now a communal creature called "Man," exists in harmony with the alien Taurians.
	www.space.com /sciencefiction/forever_free_991109.html (604 words)

	The Forever War
		The image was inspired by the Joe Haldeman novel "The Forever War", a kind of hard SF Vietnam-style saga of a relativistic space war.
		One of the technologies used is a device called a 'stasis field', which imposes a limit on the speed of objects and particles.
		The accompanying quotation is from a song which appears to describe the life of a soldier fighting a war against aliens; other lines from the song specifically refer to aliens, and I've always associated it with the Haldeman novel and this type of image.
	www.raingod.com /angus/OtherWorlds/ScienceFiction/notes/Stasis3.html (188 words)

	Locus: Joe Haldeman interview
		That and his first book, the autobiographical novel War Year (1972), were based on his service as a combat engineer from 1967 to 1969 in the US Army in Vietnam, where he was severely wounded and received a Purple Heart.
		Forever Peace is a continuation of the ideas in The Forever War -- it's about whether war's inevitable, and about how it's a reflection of human nature, and whether we might be able to change ourselves in such a way as to make war impossible.
		"Forever Peace is set in a near future, on Earth, where space travel is not an everyday thing, and where the First World has attained a level of physical comfort that's almost unbelievable, through nanotechnology, through a thing they call the 'nanoforge,' which essentially is the Everything Machine.
	www.locusmag.com /1997/Issues/07/Haldeman.html (442 words)

	defective yeti: Books: The Forever War
		By pointing out the absurdity of trying to fight an intergalactic war, Haldeman points out the absurdity of war itself, but does so in a way that suggests that war may sometimes be necessary all the same.
		I always read The Forever War was not so much an answer to Starship Troopers (although Haldeman has said that it was) as an allegory for the author's increasing feeling of alienation from the American mainstream during his service in Vietnam; I think he served between 1967 and 1970.
		Forever Peace is OK, but it's not that closely related to The Forever War, being set in a near-future where the war being fought is on Earth itself.
	www.defectiveyeti.com /archives/000570.html (1764 words)

	Lambda Sci-Fi Book Discussions
		The Forever War was written in 1974, almost 30 years ago, what technological innovations did Haldeman predict for Mandella's time that have come to pass?
		Both The Forever War and Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein utilize the concept of superhuman combat armor/suits.
		Haldeman is a veteran of the Vietnam War and has been very up front about that being his inspiration for The Forever War.
	www.lambdasf.org /lsf/books/bookdisc/foreverwar.html (437 words)

	www.markdanner.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Instead of fighting the real war that was thrust upon us on that incomprehensible morning four years ago, we stubbornly insisted on fighting a war of the imagination, an ideological struggle that we defined not by frankly appraising the real enemy before us but by focusing on the mirror of our own obsessions.
		To pay for his war, Hussein had borrowed tens of billions of dollars from the Saudis, Kuwaitis and other neighbors, and he now demanded that these debts be forgiven — he had incurred them, as he saw it, defending the lenders from Khomeini — and that oil prices be raised.
		Sold a war made urgent by the imminent threat of weapons of mass destruction in the hands of a dangerous dictator, Americans now see their sons and daughters fighting and dying in a war whose rationale has been lost even as its ending has receded into the indefinite future.
	www.markdanner.com /nyt/091105_taking.htm (7557 words)

	Rambles: Joe Haldeman, The Forever War
		The very premise strikes me as singular if not unique, and the end result is a thoroughly enjoyable novel that far exceeds the fare of most science fiction offerings.
		A reluctant warrior, he does what he has to do despite some ambivalence about the war itself, and he holds true to his personal beliefs and values in a world (several, actually) turned on its head.
		There is also a love story of sorts in the book, but it actually serves to heighten the importance of the protagonist's internal struggles with himself and with a world that becomes completely foreign to him.
	www.rambles.net /haldeman_4everwar74.html (742 words)

	WorldNetDaily: The forever war
		There are so many ill-starred events associated with the forever war that it's impossible to know where to begin.
		I call it the forever war (a takeoff on Joe Haldeman's superlative sci-fi novel of that name) because no matter what happens to bin Laden and Afghanistan, this drill is fated to continue, just with changes of venues and players.
		The major favorable economic consequence of the war was that it forced people to greatly increase their savings rate, simply because they couldn't spend, and it was those savings that financed the post-war boom.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=26187 (1065 words)

	Joe Haldeman: The Forever War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Forever War has already begun when Haldeman's novel, based on his experiences in Viet Nam, begins with William Mandella's induction into the army.
		Unlike the draftees of the Viet Nam War, the men and women fighting the Forever War were taken from the best and brightest, all college graduates.
		Even after nearly twenty-five years, The Forever War stands as a sharp and biting commentary on the military, specifically the military in Viet Nam, but more generally the military as an whole.
	www.sfsite.com /~silverag/haldeman.html (494 words)

	Classic Sci-Fi Reviews: The Forever War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		After a few months and several traumatic events on Earth, they decide to re-enlist, only to be assigned to another combat unit within minutes of re-upping.
		As they go from battle to battle, the war continues across centuries, and time dilation takes them through a new cultural upheaval on every trip.
		focuses on how war affects the soldiers that fight it, and it works brilliantly on both a literal and a metaphorical level.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue56/classic.html (540 words)

	Joe Haldeman: The Forever War - an infinity plus review
		The Forever War is a Vietnam War novel set in space, although Haldeman accepts that most of today's readers won't make the connection.
		At first, the story appears to be straight military sf: after discovery of the 'collapsar jump' has made long-distance space travel possible, a colony ship is apparently destroyed by hostile aliens and the Forever War of the title begins.
		This reissue of The Forever War fills what had been a gap in my reading, just as the SF Masterworks series will do for many in my generation.
	www.infinityplus.co.uk /nonfiction/forever.htm (673 words)

	Rove Vows Forever War
		In his book “Defying Hitler,” the German author Sebastian Haffner writes that the political situation in Germany in the 1930s was “deliberately arranged so that the individual had no room to maneuver,” one had to agree with Nazi propaganda and doctrine, remain silent (or face violence), or flee the country.
		In essence, this will be an exercise in neocon propaganda, sending a strong message to the American people—resistance, the Borgs droned, is futile—because “elections” in America are nothing of the sort, especially in Ohio (no Republican has won the presidency without carrying the state, or stealing it by way of Diebold voting machine).
		Only a handful of Democrats remain in opposition to the Bushian forever war against Muslim alien bugs (and eventually and insanely Chinese and Russian alien bugs).
	www.prisonplanet.com /articles/march2006/120306Forever.htm (625 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Forever War: Books: Joe Haldeman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This book, The Forever War, like Heinlein's Starship Troopers or Orphanage by Robert Buettner, is set in a fictional future when earth is at war with an unknown alien species.
		The reader actually feels for the soldiers who survive an unsurvivorable war only to find their world they left has changed and not for the better in their eyes.
		The war itself escalates due to a lack of cultural understanding and communication.
	www.amazon.ca /Forever-War-Joe-Haldeman/dp/0060510862 (2084 words)

	Amazon.com: The Forever War 3 : Major Mandella: Books: Joe Haldeman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Haldeman originally wrote this novel as an allegory of the Vietnam war, told through the eyes of a reluctant soldier caught up in a battle that never seemed to end, while the world he left behind changed drastically.
		The Forever War is a Hugo and Nebula award winning novel which transfers Haldeman's real life experience of Vietnam and brings it to a future war setting set out in the Universe.
		In a sense that may be part of the experience of the Vietnam veteran where having experienced a year or more of something so alien, the normal life the soldier returned to felt like something different than what he left.
	www.amazon.com /Forever-War-Major-Mandella/dp/1561630462 (2325 words)

	THOUGHTS ON THE FOREVER WAR
		Israel, which is actually surrounded by enemy states while simultaneously fighting a guerrilla war within its borders, only spends $9 billion.
		Of course, if the war is really against terrorism, Bush needn't send the military to the worlds nether regions to find miscreants at huge risk and expense.
		This is a first in the War on Drugs, even though it's taken a back seat to the War on Terror.
	www.silverbearcafe.com /private/forever.html (2025 words)

	MEview - The Forever War
		No work before or since The Forever War has so successfully portrayed the emotional toll of what is, essentially, time-travel.
		Haldeman is a maestro at characterisation and if The Forever War is your introduction to his work, you are starting off at an auspicious point.
		The Forever War’s plot zips and sizzles at a pace that has kept decades of readers glued to the page.
	meviews.hikeeba.com /review.php3?id=1857988086 (469 words)

	Review: The Forever War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		As humanity fights an interstellar conflict, the physics of travelling from battle to battle through the universe allow one embittered soldier to watch thousands of years of human evolution during his lifetime in this sci-fi homage to the Vietnam war.
		I like it because it gives an interesting look at wars in the future, where Einstein rears his relativistic head.
		I sent it because a couple of you expressed an interest in it when I listed the books I had - not an exciting reason - but the truth.
	www.geocities.com /nvpbookcircle/war.html (236 words)

	YBFREE.com April 2004: The Forever War p. 1 of 1
		Not to mention that the real reason I purchased the books was to obtain a couple of Star Wars hardcover books I was missing from my collection.
		The selection was made not because of the storyline or the cover or because I knew the author.
		While the passage of time may seem to be only a week to the travelers, it is quite possible that they have actually been away from Earth for several years.
	www.ybfree.com /34FOREVER1.html (714 words)

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