Geek Out! Book Club: The Forever War by Joe Haldeman

Geek Out! Book Club for December 2023. Geek Out! Book Club is for adults 18+. We read fantasy, science fiction and other unique genres.

The book for December is the award-winning, military science fiction classic "The Forever War" by Joe Haldeman. These books are ready to be checked out now at the Circulation Desk on the first floor of the library. The library also owns digital copies on Libby and Hoopla, in ebook and eaudio. The print book is about 265 pages long and the eaudio version on Hoopla is an estimated 9 hour and 20 minute listen.

About The Forever War:

"The Earth's leaders have drawn a line in the interstellar sand—despite the fact that the fierce alien enemy that they would oppose is inscrutable, unconquerable, and very far away. A reluctant conscript drafted into an elite Military unit, Private William Mandella has been propelled through space and time to fight in the distant thousand-year conflict; to perform his duties without rancor and even rise up through military ranks. Pvt. Mandella is willing to do whatever it takes to survive the ordeal and return home. But "home" may be even more terrifying than battle, because, thanks to the time dilation caused by space travel, Mandella is aging months while the Earth he left behind is aging centuries."