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~ Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel - 1976, Nebula Award for Best Novel - 1975, Locus Award for Best Novel - 1976, Ditmar Award for Best International Long Fiction - 1976
Drawn into an interstellar war reluctant conscript Private William Mandella has been propelled through space and time to fight in the distant thousand-year conflict. Performing his duties, and even rising up through military ranks, he is willing to 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 . . .
“To say that The Forever War is the best science fiction war novel ever written is to damn it with faint praise. It is, for all its techno-extrapolative brilliance, as fine and woundingly genuine a war story as any I've read.” -- William Gibson, author of Neuromancer, Spook Country, and Johnny Mnemonic