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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.… (altro)
JulesJones: Two books which examine in different ways what happens to the recruits in an interstellar war who by the very nature of their service can never go back to their home culture.
Bellissimo libro in cui si narra di una guerra fra umani e misteriosi alieni che causa gli effetti relativistici si protrae per migliaia di anni. Il libro spazia dall'addestramento del protagonista, azioni di guerra, vari cambiamenti culturali umani durante i molti secoli, storie d'amore. Veramente bravo Haldeman nell'amalgamare i vari aspetti di quella che poi è l'esperienza di vita del protagonista, Mandella, ma in cui si legge facilmente la sua personale esperienza di guerra in Vietnam; ne vien fuori proprio una bella storia appassionante ricca di eventi e in cui è facile leggere vari messaggi tra cui quanto sia stupida ed inutile la guerra, spesso combattuta contro un nemico indefinito e senza un reale motivo. Imperdibile !! ( )
Bel libro sulla stupidità della guerra. Geniale lo spunto fantascientifico che costringe i protagonisti a riarruolarsi nell'unica professione di cui sono esperti, pur odiandola visceralmente per l'amara soddisfazione di vincere e massacrare il nemico contrapposta all'afflizione per la continua dolorosa perdita di compagni e amici in addestramento, in incidenti e in battaglie irrisolutive. Il tutto raccontato con uno stile perfetto per scorrevolezza ed efficacia tali che solo a fine libro il lettore si rende conto di essere stato intensamente coinvolto da un ottimo scrittore. ( )
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For Ben and, always, for Gay
Incipit
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"Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man."
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Relativity propped it up, at least gave it the illusion of being there...the way all reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general relativity. Or Buddhism. Or get drafted.
I feel asleep and dreamed that I was a machine, mimicking the functions of life, creaking and clanking my clumsy way through a world, people too polite to say anything but giggling behind my back, and the little man who sat inside my head pulling the levers and clutches and watching the dials, he was hopelessly mad and storing up hurts for the day--
"One cannot make command decisions simply by assessing the tactical situation and going ahead with whatever course of action will do the most harm to the enemy with a minimum of death and damage to your own men and materiel. Modern warfare has become very complex, especially during the last century. Wars are won not by a simple series of battles won, but by a complex interrelationship among military victory, economic pressures, logistic maneuvering, access to the enemy's information, political postures--dozens, literally dozens of factors."
The most important fact about the war to most people was that if it ended suddenly, Earth's economy would collapse.
Heaven was a lovely, unspoiled Earth-like world; what Earth might have been if men had treated her with compassion instead of lust.
Desperate fun, as I said. Unless the war changed radically, our chances of surviving the next three years were microscopic. We were remarkably healthy victims of a terminal disease, trying to cram a lifetime of sensation into a half of a year.
War is the province of danger and therefore courage above all things is the first quality of a warrior, von Clausewitz maintained.
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I handed the bartender my empty glass. "I just found out where we're going."
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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The Forever War? Ugh.
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