![]() ![]() Eventually, due to nothing more than blind luck and good fortune, Mandella becomes the oldest original soldier from the war that began in 1997. The more fighting they see, the more tenuous becomes the rationale for fighting in the first place. ![]() The people who send them into battle are dead and gone when they return back home. Due to the nature of time dilation during relativistic space travel, what takes a year or two in the field translates to decades back home. The story is about futuristic soldiers-a man named Mandella, specifically-who slowly lose focus on why, exactly, they are fighting. When I hit the shelf with authors whose last names began with “H,” I met Joe Haldeman and his brilliant novel, The Forever War. Being more than a bit OCD, I worked my way down each shelf alphabetically-reading whatever books I found there. ![]()
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