100 Sci-Fi Novels - THE FOREVER WAR and FOREVER PEACE by Joe Haldeman

[@robertsommers7214]

I first read Forever War in the 80s or 90s. And then a few years later I listened to audio book of it. I didn't know it had been updated with new material since I first read it and I kept getting confused because I remembered so much of the book and it was very familiar and then I reach these parts I had absolutely no memory of.

[@armstrongagent5652]

Few people read or talked about science fiction in China until The Three-body Problem written by Liu Cixin won the Hugo Award in 2015 and then suddenly all the online bookshops started to import globally-famous sci-fi . Back then I was a poor college student who couldn't afford imported books. However, one day in 2021 I saw this omnibus editon of The Forever War which was priced at 75 RMB(about $10) and I thought"Wow, 10 dollars for 700 pages, that's quite cheap". After three years , I have read The Forever War and The Forever Peace for at least three times and I own two omnibus edition, one SF masterworks edition, one SF masterworks new edition(the new yellow cover）and one Ace edition.

[@inerdius]

Nice!

[@HasteWriting]

I enjoyed hearing your thoughts on the book and the contexts and influences. I think Forever Peace is not as timeless as Forever War, but I enjoyed the book. I reread The Forever War recently and it blew me away even more than when I first read it so I made a review too: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o6Saapqfq7mDiKssi=pNPOgFjYeCCYRJHA

[@inerdius]

Nice, and thanks! I'll definitely check it out.

[@Joe-lb8qn]

I've read all these but Free and Peace have merged together in my mind and I can't recall what is in one and the other. But the one where they get back to Earth, the final in the "trilogy" is somewhat bizarre and a real jump out of left field. Probably the weakest of the three by a fair way.

[@inerdius]

I think that's probably the consensus, but I'd have to re-read them to more intelligently comment on that.