The Forever War by Author John Haldeman

[Oddball09]

Hello there. Recent events have reignited my interest in reading and after some research I came across the Wiki article of John haldemans books The Forever War, Forever Free and Forever Peace which I believe gave the writers of the popular comic books 2000Ad inspiration for several of their stories. have any of you read these and if so what is your overall review of these books? One more question I'd like to to get some more books along these lines of futuristic soldiers fighting fighting wars in space so I would gladly accept any advice and any recommendations anyone may have. Thank you in advance.

[Huderon]

The Forever War is one of my favourite sci-fi novels.

Forever Free is one I haven't read, and is a sequel to Forever War, but the consensus seems to be that it starts well and goes downhill pretty rapidly.

Jerry Pournelle's Janissaries is a good read - a nice twist on the usual space soldiers theme. I read the first sequel as well, but didn't enjoy it as much.

Still controversial 50 years on is Heinlein's Starship Troopers - you might want to read the Wikipedia article about it before deciding on that one as it is a very long time since I read it

[LeMarchand]

Not a fan of the "Military SF" sub-genre, but have heard good things about:

David Weber (Honor Harrington series)
Jack Campbell ("Lost Fleet" series recently published in UK - sounds like Galactica)
David Feintuch (Seafort series)

Apparently some of the Warhammer 40K books are tolerably written (some of their fantasy ones were really rather good). I feel I ought to mention Ben Counter here (brother of a friend of one of Mme LeMarchand's girls).

On a tangent, the Temeraire series (think Sharpe with dragons) is supposed to be great fun.