Alienating the Audience podcast

The Forever War

12/2/2021

Alienating the Audience

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Joe Haldeman's novel "The Forever War" is great science fiction in and of itself, involving aliens, time dilation, and how conflicts stretch out for centuries thanks to relativity. It's also a great exploration of the nature and hopelessness of war, a la Vietnam.

Tom Merritt joins to discuss

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