《Forever War》作者： - Joe Haldeman【EPUB】

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THE FOREVER WAR Joe Haldeman AUTHOR'S NOTE This is the definitive version of The Forever War. There are two other versions, and my publisher has been kind enough to allow me to clarify things here. The one you're holding in your hand is the book as it was originally written. But it has a pretty tortuous history It's ironic, since it later won the Hugo and Nebula Awards, and has won "Best Novel" awards in other countries, but The Forever War was not an easy book to sell back in the early seventies. It was rejected by eighteen publishers before St. Martin's Press decided to take a chance on it. &quotretty good book," was the usual reaction, "but nobody wants to read a science fiction novel about Vietnam". Twenty-five years later, most young readers don't even see the parallels between The Forever War and the seemingly endless one we were involved in at the time, and that's okay. It's about Vietnam because that's the war the author was in. But it's mainly about war, about soldiers, and about the reasons we think we need them. While the book was being looked at by all those publishers, it was also being serialized piecemeal in Analog magazine. The editor, Ben Bova, was a tremendous help, not only in editing, but also for making the thing exist at all! He gave it a prominent