num_pages: 218
description: Space War is Hell....Especially for Private William Mandella--drafted into the army by the Elite Conscription Act of 1996--who was thrust into a brutal interstellar conflict that raged millions of light years from Earth. But battling a savage alien enemy was not the hard part. Nor was fighting alongside a promiscuous co-ed cadre of civilization's brightest and toughest young people (who, by the way, considered their veteran commander a very lethal social misfit).As the enemy was pushed farther away, time-dilation became a growing problem. Now Major Mandella found that he was in the army for about two years... or three thousand. It all depended on where you were keeping time.His real test was in coping with the astonishing, even evolutionary changes the people of Earth were undergoing. Mandella's tour of duty was probably the longest of any person who ever took up arms. Yet, still the warrior in him fought on.Jacket art by Dorian Vallejo.
language: English
title: The Forever War
titlecomplete: The Forever War
characters: Marygay Potter, Charlie Moore, William Mandella
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, War, Space Opera, Science Fiction Fantasy, Classics, Time Travel, Space, Military Fiction, Fantasy
ratings_count: 162703
series: The Forever War (2017), The Forever War
awards: awardedAt: 189331200000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 157795200000
name: Nebula Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 189331200000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 189331200000
name: Ditmar Award
category: Best International Long Fiction
publisher: Ballantine Books