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Imaginez une guerre si vaste que l'écho des batailles peut mettre plusieurs siècles à parvenir aux oreilles de ceux qui les ont ordonnées... enfin, de leurs descendants, en tout cas. Pour le soldat Mandella, membre de l'une des unités d'élite chargées de combattre les Taurans, le problème est inverse : lorsqu'il revient sur Terre après plusieurs mois de campagne, des décennies se sont écoulées. Comment continuer à vivre, quand tout ce pour quoi on s'est battu n'existe plus ?… (plus d'informations)
JulesJones: Two books which examine in different ways what happens to the recruits in an interstellar war who by the very nature of their service can never go back to their home culture.
Very sciencey, very military-y. Writing is fine but not great. Book was written in the 70s and is sorta dated and sexist and homophobic in a well-meaning kind of way. ( )
It was almost enjoyable... just... not quite. It was very narrative - the main character just described everything as if it were the, ah, author speaking. It's usually more enjoyable to read books where the characters are at least pretending to be fictional, and not just an author-cutout. That, and, there is some quasi-social foolishness about sexuality and an underlying misogyny. Women are there for a specific purpose and while the author writes it as if the sexes are equal, his females were just men described in text as women - I am fairly confident that women aren't going to be okay to be "assigned" mandatory sex partners on their downtime. ( )
Overall good with some interesting ideas, but I think I saw the book hyped too much before I read it. I expected more ... feels kinda rushed and as if more could have been made of the good ideas. Maybe the second and third book will enrich the story a bit... ( )
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For Ben and, always, for Gay
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"Tonight we're going to show you eight silent ways to kill a man."
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Relativity propped it up, at least gave it the illusion of being there...the way all reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general relativity. Or Buddhism. Or get drafted.
I feel asleep and dreamed that I was a machine, mimicking the functions of life, creaking and clanking my clumsy way through a world, people too polite to say anything but giggling behind my back, and the little man who sat inside my head pulling the levers and clutches and watching the dials, he was hopelessly mad and storing up hurts for the day--
"One cannot make command decisions simply by assessing the tactical situation and going ahead with whatever course of action will do the most harm to the enemy with a minimum of death and damage to your own men and materiel. Modern warfare has become very complex, especially during the last century. Wars are won not by a simple series of battles won, but by a complex interrelationship among military victory, economic pressures, logistic maneuvering, access to the enemy's information, political postures--dozens, literally dozens of factors."
The most important fact about the war to most people was that if it ended suddenly, Earth's economy would collapse.
Heaven was a lovely, unspoiled Earth-like world; what Earth might have been if men had treated her with compassion instead of lust.
Desperate fun, as I said. Unless the war changed radically, our chances of surviving the next three years were microscopic. We were remarkably healthy victims of a terminal disease, trying to cram a lifetime of sensation into a half of a year.
War is the province of danger and therefore courage above all things is the first quality of a warrior, von Clausewitz maintained.
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I handed the bartender my empty glass. "I just found out where we're going."
Imaginez une guerre si vaste que l'écho des batailles peut mettre plusieurs siècles à parvenir aux oreilles de ceux qui les ont ordonnées... enfin, de leurs descendants, en tout cas. Pour le soldat Mandella, membre de l'une des unités d'élite chargées de combattre les Taurans, le problème est inverse : lorsqu'il revient sur Terre après plusieurs mois de campagne, des décennies se sont écoulées. Comment continuer à vivre, quand tout ce pour quoi on s'est battu n'existe plus ?
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