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Forever Peace (Remembering Tomorrow)
by: Joe Haldeman
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Binding: Mass Market PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780441005666
Edition: First Thus
ISBN: 0441005667
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Label: Ace
Manufacturer: Ace
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 368
Publication Date: October 01, 1998
Publisher: Ace
Studio: Ace
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- ISBN13: 9780441005666
- Condition: New
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Julian Class is a full-time professor and part-time combat veteran who spends a third of each month virtually wired to a robotic "soldierboy." The soldierboys, along with flyboys and other advanced constructs, allow the U.S. to wage a remotely controlled war against constant uprisings in the Third World. The conflicts are largely driven by the so-called First World countries' access to nanoforges--devices that can almost instantly manufacture any product imaginable, given the proper raw materials--and the Third World countries' lack of access to these devices. But even as Julian learns that the consensual reality shared by soldierboy operators can lead to universal peace, the nanoforges create a way for humanity to utterly destroy itself, and it will be a race against time to see which will happen first. Although Forever Peace bears a title similar to Joe Haldeman's classic novel The Forever War, he says it's not a sequel.
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2043 A.D.: The Ngumi War rages. A burned-out soldier and his scientist lover discover a secret that could put the universe back to square one--not a terrifying prospect, but a tempting one. Featured on the "Locus" Recommended Reading list and selected by "Publishers Weekly" as one of the best books of the year.
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- This is two books: one good, one badA plot twist in the middle of THE FOREVER PEACE divides the book neatly into two parts. The first part is a war story; the second is a techno-political thriller.
Deep into the 21st Century, a world war rages. The rich nations of the northern hemisphere are battling the poor nations of the southern hemisphere. Key to the north's war efforts (and to the book) are "soldierboys." Think of them as Predator drones with arms and legs--stealthy, bristling with an array of futuristic weapons ... Read More
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- Not cynically titledIt may be tempting to assume that Joe Haldeman has cynically chosen a title for this book because the title resonates with the title of his famous work "The Forever War", despite the prologue which explains the two books are unrelated except in common themes. This is NOT the case. This is NOT a cynical coattails ride on that earlier work's fame. The title of this book is perfectly apt. Give it a read!
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- Good read, but dismal as hellForever Peace is a good book. I often found myself wondering how authors like Haldeman (a Vietnam vet) can put such terrifying, nihilistic and depressing imagery in their books and still manage to get up every morning. There were some parts of the book that turned my stomach to read, and the main character was suicidally stricken and so hateful of the world he lived in. Read it through if you have a durable tummy, just don't expect to be smiling at the end.
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- Real and believable characters fuel Forever PeaceI was a little skeptical coming in to this one after reading the first 10 pages. Soldierboys and so on just didn't seem like the science fiction I was looking for. But, hey, it won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, so how could it not be a good read? I came to love this book on so many different levels.
The first half of the book is noticeably better than the second half of the book. In the first half Haldeman spends his time developing the military sci fi world, and especially developing ... Read More
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- This is a novel that would have been better as a short story.If you have read and enjoyed this novel, then please skip over this review. If you haven't yet read it, then press on. My apologies in advance to the author and his fans.
The novel isn't really a science fiction novel. It is a story masking an exposition of the author's perceptions of race, war, sex, religion, and culture. Based on 1960s thinking in these areas, but set in the middle of the 21st century, the attitudes of the characters were not believable. Worse yet, the trite anti-western ... Read More
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