The Forever War (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Joe Haldeman
- First Published: 1974
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—future war
- Time of Work: 1997-3143
- Setting: Earth and various planets
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: Homosexuality or homosexuals, Love or romance, Future, Other worlds, Space flight or travel, War, 1990’s, Space and time
- Locales: Earth, Fictional planets
The Plot
The story concerns the experiences of William Mandella during a protracted interstellar war between humanity and an alien race known as the Taurans. The novel begins in 1997, when the war already has been escalating for some years. Mandella has been drafted into the United Nations Exploratory Force (UNEF) under the terms of a conscription act intended to select the physical and intellectual elite of Earth to defend humanity against the Tauran menace. Among the UNEFs more unusual policies are toleration of drug use and compulsory sexual promiscuity, enforced through...
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