Forever Peace
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Forever Peace
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Narrated by:
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George Wilson
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Written by:
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Joe Haldeman
About this listen
War in the 21st century is fought by "soldierboys". Remote-controlled mechanical monsters, they are run by human soldiers who hard-wire their brains together to form each unit. Julian is one of these dedicated soldiers, until he inadvertently kills a young boy. Now he struggles to understand how this has changed his mind.
Forever Peace is a riveting portrayal of the effects of collective consciousness, and it offers some tantalizing revelations. Narrator George Wilson's skillful performance weaves together the elements of futuristic technology with the drama of a trained soldier reconciling basic human needs.
©1997 Joe Haldeman (P)2000 Recorded BooksWhat the critics say
- Hugo Award, Best Novel, 1998
- Nebula Award, Best Novel, 1998
"At once a hard science, military, and political thriller, this book presents a thoughtful and hopeful solution to ending war in the 21st century. Essential for sf collections." (Library Journal)
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- Anonymous User
- 2023-12-07
Great narrative, but not as compelling as Forever War
This entry in the series is much longer in length and much larger in scope. While it is still quite enjoyable, with deeper character connections than the first book, I personally was not as hooked. Dont go into this expecting Forever War 2. Take it as a much grander thematic experience in the context of human warfare and especially the Vietnam era. Thats all i got for now. Excited for book 3!
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- Josh Lambert
- 2024-03-28
Not a sequel to forever war
While this is listed as part of the series, it doesn’t follow the story at all. Skip this book and go to the next book.
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- pigletbunny
- 2024-11-03
Very realistic, incl. impressive tech predictions
I was VERY impressed with this book :-) :-) :-)
And, given that it was first published in 1997 (I got that date wrong initially, so have edited this review), does a surprisingly good job of predicting future cell-phone tech improvements vs. 1997 cell-phone tech, even though today's (2024) cell phones do even more than in this book ;-) (Note: I now [I've edited this review] know that the author is a Vietnam War vet; that explains their excellent insight into how/what soldiers think and behave.) Characters and plot/sub-plots read as very realistic (POSSIBLE spoiler, but, seriously, it's not; trust me), even down to the existence of fanatics who claim to be members of a religion, but ignore that religion's key tenets of compassion and peacefulness. (Like today's "Christian", "Jewish, "Muslim", etc. terrorists [yes, there are terrorists who call and consider themselves Christian], including the huge number of supposedly-Christian misogynists who conduct, facilitate, and support the mutilation of girls.)
Oh! I almost forgot: there's a confusing aspect of the book, caused by this production being an audiobook with only one narrator. What is it? The book switches back and forth, back and forth, MANY times, between two points of view: that of 3rd person (they/them) somewhat-omniscient knows the thoughts of SOME of the characters, to 1st person (I/me). With this audiobook having only 1 narrator, each time the book switches between points of view, you only know by the wording suddenly changing to the other point of view (e.g. "I walked ..." to "[character name] walked ..."). It can take a sec. for you to realize that, and definitely is somewhat disorienting the first bunch of times it happens.
ALSO, the format of this audiobook is WEIRD. It isn't divided into chapters, or even sections; this makes rewinding or fast forwarding a chunk at a time VERY difficult; the progress line (for the WHOLE book) in (at least) the iOS app is VERY short. It's the length that a single chapter is, commonly, in other books. This means that moving the position-dot/circle only a little bit is almost impossible; even smaller fingers will find it difficult. :-(
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- Cole Kramer
- 2021-08-25
Good but not Great
Joe Haldeman has written an interesting premise of military coup of the world. It unfortunately has to measure up against his previous work, Forever War, and does not seem to quite grasp the tempo and gravity of it's predecessor. Still it has some interesting perspectives on humanity than Joe explores while interspersed with scenes of sporadic violence. It's definitely a good choice of you're a fan of Mr. Haldeman or sci-fi in general.
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- Brad Goldthorpe
- 2019-07-20
The book was alright.
I enjoyed the story but I found myself comparing it to the first one and I was certainly intrigued by that story. The performance was good and character depth progressed. I did find the concepts articulated about the future when this book was written to be fascinating! To think that some of these ideas he wrote some time ago are now very much real or well on their way to being real.
Overall good book to discover with no ties to the first one it seems.
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- Anonymous User
- 2024-06-10
not part of the series
do not expect this to be related to the first book at all. on its own this is a decent story.
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