The Forever War
Joe Haldeman · 1974
Written by a Vietnam veteran, Haldeman's 1974 novel is the direct response to Heinlein's *Starship Troopers*. It shows the horror, disorientation, and futility of interstellar war, with time dilation used to devastating effect.
The case against
Haldeman's great alienation device is a future where everyone is gay, presented as the creeping horror awaiting his soldier, and the decades have not been kind to that choice. Marygay is less a person than a fixed point to come home to, the physics lectures arrive on schedule, and the ending ties a bow on a book that spent itself arguing bows were lies.
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