+Vote!
io9 (Free subscription) | 10/13/2008
... book follows the story of a war between humans and the Tauran species. The main character, Private William Mandella, works out his duty to the government in space, fighting the good fight, only to return to his home world which has moved ahead centuries past him. Due to the effects of faster-than-light travel, Mandella is centuries younger than the world he left. Forever War...
+Vote!
Film School Rejects (Free subscription) | 10/13/2008
... through his Scott Free Productions label. As fans of the iconic book know, the story is about William Mandella, a student who joins an elite fighting force to battle an alien race - called Taurans - while light years away on Earth, mankind creates and begins mass-producing clones who eventually play a major role in the intergalactic war. It’s a science-fiction epic, a bit of ‘The...
+Vote!
Savage Popcorn (Free subscription) | 10/13/2008
... ‘Blade Runner,’ built upon a brilliant, disorienting premise.”The Forever War tells the story of William Mandella, who returns from from weeks or months of active duty in the interstellar “Forever War” to an Earth which, after centuries of change, is no longer his home.
+Vote!
/Film (Free subscription) | 10/13/2008
... service during the Vietnam War. The plot description from the books cover follows: “Private William Mandella is a hero in spite of himself — a reluctant conscript drafted into an elite military unit, and propelled through space and time to fight in a distant thousand-year conflict. He never wanted to go to war, but the leaders on Earth have drawn a line in the interstellar sand —...
+Vote!
Empire News (Free subscription) | 10/13/2008
Fans of proper sci-fi*, rejoice - not only is Ridley Scott returning to make us another slice of future fiction, but he's doing it with Joe Haldeman's classic The Forever War, which he accurately describes as "a bit of The Odyssey by way of Blade Runner" and which has a frankly kickass sci-fi premise. The story follows a group of soldiers, but in particular William Mandella and his friend...
