SF Masterworks: Forever War

Winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards. A true masterpiece of military science fiction.

Private William Mandella is a reluctant hero, a physics student drafted into an elite military unit. He is propelled through space and time to fight in a distant, thousand-year conflict against an unknowable alien enemy.

Mandella will perform his duties and survive, but his greatest test will come when he returns home. Because of the time dilation from space travel, he has aged only months, while Earth has aged centuries. He and his fellow soldiers are now isolated from the very world they were fighting for, a world that has changed beyond their comprehension.

Based on the author's own experiences in the Vietnam War, The Forever War is a powerful anti-war allegory and a landmark of the science fiction genre.