Forever War. 01
β Scribed by Joe Haldeman
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press;Thomas Dunne Books
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 230 KB
- Edition
- 1st St. Martin's Griffin ed
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
The monumental Hugo and Nebula award winning SF classic Featuring a new introduction by John Scalzi
The Earth's leaders have drawn a line in the interstellar sanddespite the fact that the fierce alien enemy they would oppose is inscrutable, unconquerable, and very far away. A reluctant conscript drafted into an elite Military unit, Private William Mandella has been propelled through space and time to fight in the distant thousand-year conflict; to perform his duties and do whatever it takes to survive the ordeal and return home. But "home" may be even more terrifying than battle, because, thanks to the time dilation caused by space travel, Mandella is aging months while the Earth he left behind is aging centuries...
Library : Science Fiction
Formats : EPUB
ISBN : 9780312536633
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