By Joe Haldeman
This is a classic of war-sci-fi. Apparently it's modeled on the authors experience in Vietnam, and the alienation he felt upon returning to society.
In the book, humanity is in a war against the Taurons. The actual war may have only been a few years, but owing to relativistic time dilation, it was stretched out to over a thousand years.
Through the war a soldier fights the Taurons, rising up in the ranks of the military. He periodically returns to earth, or it's colonies. Each return to civilian life is farther into the future due to relativistic time dailation. Each visit is more and more strange.
This is a classic of war-sci-fi. Apparently it's modeled on the authors experience in Vietnam, and the alienation he felt upon returning to society.
In the book, humanity is in a war against the Taurons. The actual war may have only been a few years, but owing to relativistic time dilation, it was stretched out to over a thousand years.
Through the war a soldier fights the Taurons, rising up in the ranks of the military. He periodically returns to earth, or it's colonies. Each return to civilian life is farther into the future due to relativistic time dailation. Each visit is more and more strange.
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