Thread:Sharol46/@comment-27914031-20180628122922

Hey Sharol, have you ever read Joe Haldeman’s book “Forever War?” It came to my attention because it was, oddly, on the John Scalzi page at my library’s e-book catalog. Turns out, it was there because Scalzi wrote a forward to it. I don’t know how I missed ever hearing of the book anyway, because it’s a Hugo+Nebula winner from the 70’s, when I was reading a lot of SF, and it’s considered a SF classic — and rightly so. It has many similarities/parallels to Scalzi’s book “Ghost Soldiers,” but with an additional interesting twist of relativity travel messing with the relative ages of soldiers thru their careers, when compared to their homeworld, and the tech that they fight with. There are so many similarities to Scalzi’s book that in his forward, Scalzi says he was accused of stealing from Haldeman. I liked it so much that now I have to go out and find some more Haldeman books to read... 