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Art Nr.: 0575094141 |
ISBN 13: 9780575094147 |
Untertitel: The science fiction classic and thought-provoking critique of war |
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010 |
Erschienen bei: Orion Publishing Co |
Einband: Taschenbuch |
Maße: 198x129x27 mm |
Seitenzahl: 256 |
Gewicht: 238 g |
Sprache: Deutsch |
Autor: Joe Haldeman |
Beschreibung |
One of the very best science fiction novels of all time. An intelligent and thought provoking allegory for the Vietnam War. |
Leseprobe: |
Private William Mandella is a reluctant hero in an interstellar war against an unknowable and unconquerable alien enemy, but his greatest test will come when he returns to Earth, for relativity means that, for every few months' tour of duty, centuries have passed on Earth. |
Informationen über den Autor |
Joe Haldeman was born in Oklahoma in 1943 and studied physics and astronomy before serving as a combat engineer in Vietnam, where he was severely wounded and won a Purple Heart. The Forever War was his first SF novel and it won both the Hugo and Nebula awards, a feat which The Forever Peace repeated. He is also the author of, among others, Mindbridge, All My Sins Remembered, Worlds, Worlds Apart and Worlds Enough and Time. |