{"id":4718,"date":"2010-12-22T06:45:58","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T11:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/?p=4718"},"modified":"2010-12-19T23:47:41","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T04:47:41","slug":"forever-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2010\/12\/22\/forever-war\/","title":{"rendered":"ACQUIRED: The Forever War by Joe Haldeman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I recently picked up a copy of <em>The Forever War<\/em> by Joe Haldeman.\u00a0 I read his book <a title=\"The Accidental Time Machine\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/2009\/11\/13\/the-accidental-time-machine-by-joe-haldeman\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Accidental Time Machine<\/em><\/a> and really enjoyed it.\u00a0 Apparently <em>The Forever War<\/em> is his masterpiece.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"The Forever War by Joe Haldeman\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/forever-war.jpg\" alt=\"The Forever War by Joe Haldeman\" width=\"336\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Here is the description from <a title=\"The Forever War on Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Forever_War\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"text-align: justify;\"><p><em>The Forever War<\/em> (1974) is a science fiction novel by American author Joe Haldeman, telling the contemplative story of soldiers fighting an interstellar war between humanity and the enigmatic Tauran species. The pithy, insightful explorations of the inhumanity of war and of bureaucracy, and of the psychological effects resulting from time dilation space travel (a soldier returns home after centuries away), won the Nebula Award in 1975, and the Hugo and the Locus awards in 1976.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Inside the book are two pages of quotes praising this novel.\u00a0 And I&#8217;m not talking podunk newspapers, these are big time names such as: William Gibson, Greg Bear, Cory Doctorow, Stephen King, and more.\u00a0 It may be a little while until I can start on this book, but I&#8217;m really looking forward to it!<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Tell the world about ONCE UPON A GEEK:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-4718\" 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