[Road-Killer]

Anyone read it? What did you think?

[Thoughtcriminal84]

Sorry, didn't read it. But I did read Forever peace, which was explained to be a sort of spiritual sequel to it. I enjoyed it intensely. My favorite books always show the thoughts of the characters in ingenuious ways, and I felt that the soldier-boy mind meld thing in Forever Peace (while being somewhat cheese, and over done in sci-fi) did that rather well.

Forever War has been catching my eye every time I go to the book store...but I'm not really into military sci-fi. have to be in the mood for it, i suppose.

[Rob B]

I read Forever War earlier this year. I thought it was pretty good. The effects of war on the soldiers is conveyed very well.

[Minanonn]

It's a good piece of work. Don't know that I'd call it "military" s-f, it may involve the characters being in the military, but the mindset is anything but.

[FitzChivalry]

Forever War is one of the best sci fi books i ever read.. somewhere up there with Ender's Game and Snow Crash.

[Rob B]

Snow Crash is a great, fun book. I tried Cryptonimocon(or whatever the hell the name of the book was) and I was two hundred pages into it before realizing that the book was going nowhere, yet it received critical acclaim. Guess I am just a mo-ron.

Ender's Game was great as well, though I liked Speaker for the Dead better.

[Black Echo]

I have read it about five times. I enjoy books that show entropy and the effects of FTL combat on soldiers, how they can leave Earth to fight a battle and when they come back, everything has changed because decades have passed since they left, even though to them, only a few weeks will have passed subjective time. Good read.

I also enjoyed his other short story, can't remember the name of it now, but it involved man fighting some giant snails. Same concepts, the hero had fostered a bastard son on one leave, and after a battle and his return, his son's grave marker was so erroded by time, that he could barely read the epitatah there.

This is a good author, one of my favorites.

[Monty Mike]

It's a book I recently bought, but haven't started reading yet. I've been told great things of it though, and have high expectations :D

[Yobmod]

Forever War, is one of my favourite's :D

Just misses being in my top 10 due to the silly 'everybody is gay' society. It may be a clever way to control the population growth, but i have extreme doubts that the general populace would have put up with it. I would hope even gay people would have problems with messing with embryo's eventual sexuality - i certainly would!
But it was only a minor part of the story, and the rest was very good, and affecting.

[fluffy bunny]

I have extreme doubts that the general populace would have put up with it.

But bear in mind there are plenty of things that today's society puts up with that were at the very least 'taboo' a century ago. It's not that much of a leap if you think about it, especially if you think of the time scale the novel takes place over. It's still an ingenious way to solve the population problem :p

It's a good piece of work. Don't know that I'd call it "military" s-f, it may involve the characters being in the military, but the mindset is anything but.
I'm still of the opinion best book to contrast Forever War with regards to the soldiers and the attitudes portrayed is Heinlein's Starship Troopers.