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Forever War de Joe Haldeman

Forever War

Autor Joe Haldeman Ilustrat de Marvano
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en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 oct 2018

Descoperim în The Forever War o lectură stratificată, care pornește cu un ritm alert de instrucție militară, dar care se transformă rapid într-o meditație melancolică asupra timpului și alienării. Reținem aici un sistem tehnologic și magic în rigoarea sa științifică: utilizarea relativității ca armă și, simultan, ca blestem. Pe măsură ce William Mandella călătorește prin sărituri stelare pentru a lupta cu tauranii, dilatarea timpului face ca, la fiecare întoarcere, societatea umană să fie de nerecunoscut. Această barieră temporală devine o barieră culturală insurmontabilă, reflectând trauma veteranilor care se întorc într-o lume care nu îi mai înțelege.

Găsim în această operă forța narativă a lui Robert A. Heinlein din Starship Troopers combinată cu sensibilitatea psihologică a lui John Scalzi din Old Man's War — dar cu un glas propriu, mult mai cinic și ancorat în realitatea brutală a războiului. Spre deosebire de viziunea idealizată a cetățeniei prin serviciu militar, Joe Haldeman folosește genul science-fiction pentru a demonta mecanismele complexului militar-industrial. În contextul operei sale, dacă The Accidental Time Machine explorează mecanica timpului cu o curiozitate aproape ludică, The Forever War rămâne pilonul central al carierei sale, o lucrare mult mai viscerală decât Starbound, deoarece transpune direct experiența personală a autorului decorat cu Purple Heart în Vietnam. Este, în esență, un portret al dezrădăcinării absolute, unde inamicul cel mai mare nu este extraterestrul, ci timpul însuși.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781785862090
ISBN-10: 178586209X
Pagini: 168
Dimensiuni: 169 x 256 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: Titan Books

De ce să citești această carte

Pentru cititorii care caută un roman polițist interstelar transformat în dramă socială, această carte oferă o perspectivă unică asupra costului uman al conflictelor. Veți câștiga o înțelegere profundă a modului în care progresul tehnologic poate izola individul de propria specie. Este o lectură esențială pentru a vedea cum science-fiction-ul poate fi cea mai onestă formă de literatură despre realitatea istorică.

Despre autor

Joe William Haldeman, născut în 1943, este un autor american de seamă și profesor emerit la MIT. Experiența sa de luptă în Vietnam, unde a fost rănit grav, a devenit fundamentul întregii sale cariere literare, marcând profund temele sale despre război și memorie. Debutul său în genul beletristic, The Forever War, i-a adus consacrarea internațională, fiind unul dintre puținii autori care au câștigat de mai multe ori prestigioasele premii Hugo și Nebula (performanță repetată ulterior cu Forever Peace). În 2012, a fost inclus în Science Fiction Hall of Fame, recunoaștere a contribuției sale la transformarea genului dintr-o simplă aventură în critică socială profundă.

Notă biografică

Joe Haldeman is an American science fiction author best known for his award-winning 1974 novel, The Forever War. Many of Haldeman's works, including his debut novel, War Year, and The Forever War, were inspired by his experiences serving in the Vietnam War, and by his re-adjustment to civilian life after being wounded in combat. Marvano is the pen name of Mark van Oppen, a Belgian comic artist most famous for The Forever War, in collaboration with Joe Haldeman. He works as an illustrator, writer, and comic artist.

Descriere

The Forever War has ended and the survivors are left to pick up the pieces. But what remains of the human race struggles to find its place in the universe in the aftermath of the galaxy shattering conflict.

Recenzii

"To say that "The Forever War" is the best science fiction war novel ever written is to damn it with faint praise. It is, for all its techno-extrapolative brilliance, as fine and woundingly genuine a war story as any I've read."
--William Gibson, author of "Neuromancer, Spook Country
""There are a handful of moments when an American science fiction novel abruptly and seemingly effortlessly satisfied every possible expectation conveyed not only by the genre's ambitions, but of those of the whole literary landscape with which it was contemporary: Sturgeon's "More Than Human," Dick's "The Man In The High Castle," LeGuin's "Dispossessed," Gibson's "Neuromancer," "The Forever War" is one such book, and like those others still carries with it that air of recognition and possibility."
--Jonathan Lethem, author of "Gun With Occcasional Music, Fortress of Solitude
""Perhaps the most important war novel written since Vietnam . . . Haldeman, a veteran, is a flat-out visionary . . . and protagonist William Mandella's attempt to survive and remain human in the face of an absurd almost endless war is harrowing hilarious heartbreaking and true . . . like all the best works of literature THE FOREVER WAR takes you apart and then, before you can turn that last page, puts you back together: better, wiser, more human. Simply extraordinary."
--Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prize winning author of "The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
""If there was a Fort Knox for Science Fiction writers, we'd have to lock Joe Haldeman up."
--Stephen King, author of "The Shining, The Dead Zone, The Stand
"""The Forever War" is not just a great Science Fiction novel, it's a great Vietnam war novel- and a great war novel, without qualification- that is also Science Fiction. A classic to grace either genre."
--Iain M. Banks, author of "Use of Weapons, The Player of Games, Matter
""FOREVER WAR is brilliant--one of the most influential war novels of our time. That it happens to be set in the future only broadens and enhances its message."
--Greg Bear, author of "Moving Mars, Eon, The Forge of God
""A parable whose lessons are needful learning once more."
--John Scalzi, author of "Old Man's War, The Ghost Brigades, Zoe's Tale
""I first read this twenty years ago and have never forgotten the wonder and fury it kindled at the time. Anyone who talks about the glory of war has obviously never read it. A beautifully detailed and intensely personal account of a conflict which lasts for over a thousand years, as told by one grunt who lives through it all. Only a writer as skillfull and knowledgeable as Haldeman could use war's dark glamour to lure the reader in and then deplou the sam fascination to show just what kind of effect this orchestrated barbarism can have on the human soul."
--Peter F. Hamilton, author of "Pandora's Star, Judas Unchained, The Dreaming Void
""In a literature of ideas, "The Forever War" is a titan: a book filled with mind-bending ideas about relatavistic time-distortion and world-shaking ideas about the futility of war. In today's world, where we think declaring war on abstract nouns like TERROR is a winning strategy, we need THE FOREVER WAR."
--Cory Doctorow, author of "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Little Brother X
""It is to the Vietnam War what "Catch-22" was to World War II, the definitive, bleakly comicsatire."
--Thomas M. Disch, author of "Camp"" Concentration,"" 334
"""The Forever War" does what the very best science fiction does. It deals with extremes both societal and teleological; it places a frame around humankind's place in the universe to show us what is outside the frame; and it functions simultaneously at the literal and metaphorical level. Inarguably one of the genre's great novels, it is also among the finest novels ever written about war."
--James Sallis, author of "The Long Legged Fly, Drive, Cripple Creek"
"To say that "The Forever War" is the best science fiction war novel ever written is to damn it with faint praise. It is, for all its techno-extrapolative brilliance, as fine and woundingly genuine a war story as any I've read."
--William Gibson, author of "Neuromancer, Spook Country
""There are a handful of moments when an American science fiction novel abruptly and seemingly effortlessly satisfied every possible expectation conveyed not only by the genre's ambitions, but of those of the whole literary landscape with which it was contemporary: Sturgeon's "More Than Human," Dick's "The Man In The High Castle," LeGuin's "Dispossessed," Gibson's "Neuromancer." "The Forever War" is one such book, and like those others still carries with it that air of recognition and possibility."
--Jonathan Lethem, author of "Gun With Occcasional Music, Fortress of Solitude
""Perhaps the most important war novel written since Vietnam . . . Haldeman, a veteran, is a flat-out visionary . . . and protagonist William Mandella's attempt to survive and remain human in the face of an absurd almost endless war is harrowing hilarious heartbreaking and true . . . like all the best works of literature THE FOREVER WAR takes you apart and then, before you can turn that last page, puts you back together: better, wiser, more human. Simply extraordinary."
--Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prize winning author of "The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
""If there was a Fort Knox for Science Fiction writers, we'd have to lock Joe Haldeman up."
--Stephen King, author of "The Shining, The Dead Zone, The Stand
"""The Forever War" is not just a great Science Fiction novel, it's a great Vietnam war novel - and a great war novel, without qualification- that is also Science Fiction. A classic to grace either genre."
--Iain M. Banks, author of "Use of Weapons, The Player of Games, Matter
""FOREVER WAR is brilliant--one of the most influential war novels of our time.