Joe Haldeman - The Forever War

[XMan]

An homage to Starship Troopers, and probably one of the greatest sci-fi war books EVER. The Sci-Fi channel is going to be making it into a miniseries.

Hopefully they will do a better job on it than Verhoeven did with Troopers.



<< The Sci-Fi Channel has issued a press release about all sorts of new projects it'll be doing shortly and there's quite a few in there that caught people by suprise. Along with the 20-hour epic miniseries "Taken", there'll numerous 4-hour mini-series in the works based on various things ranging the famous atmospheric computer game "Myst" to award winning sci-fi novels like "The Forever War" and "The Chronicles of Amber". >>

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Cool, but I'm much more excited about

<< The Chronicles of Amber >>

Zelazny did some of his best work with them IMO.

 

[XMan]

<< Zelazny did some of his best work with them IMO. >>



Yeah, that and Wild Cards. His death was a great loss.

 

[DaveSimmons]

<< and probably one of the greatest sci-fi war books EVER. >>

Excellent book, but specifically for military SF I'd give higher ratings to Drake, Stirling, and Weber.

 

[tk149]

My $0.02

1. Heinlein's "Starship Troopers" was mostly full of non-action. It was more political commentary and mood than anything else. Therefore, as an action movie, it bore little resemblance to the book. Don't get me wrong, I liked both the book and the movie. You just gotta realize that a faithful translation of the book would make a lousy action movie. I was sooo disappointed when they made the PC game a RTS rather than a FPS. 1000 bugs on screen at once, all howling for your blood! Oh that would've been cool...

2. The same thing goes for "The Forever War" - a little more action than in the book "Starship Troopers" but still depended more on mood than anything else. Maybe in a miniseries they can remain faithful to the book.

3. "Forever Peace" kinda sucked. "Forever Free" was okay.

4. A well done "Amber" series would be great! Just hope they don't use poor CGI.

5. Drake and Weber (sorry, never read Stirling) do better military SF because they tend to focus on the action. A movie about Hammer's Slammers would be great!

 

[DigDug]

When I read the title, I thought this was some political commentary on the Middle-East situation. :0

 

[DaveSimmons]

<< 5. Drake and Weber (sorry, never read Stirling) do better military SF because they tend to focus on the action. A movie about Hammer's Slammers would be great! >>

Drake also focuses on "grunts" rather than the Haldeman's gentleman-soldiers, pobably because he served in Viet Nam.

For Stirling I highly recommend "Marching Through Georgia" as well as the "General" books he co-authored with Drake.

 

[XMan]

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<< 5. Drake and Weber (sorry, never read Stirling) do better military SF because they tend to focus on the action. A movie about Hammer's Slammers would be great! >>

Drake also focuses on "grunts" rather than the Haldeman's gentleman-soldiers, pobably because he served in Viet Nam.

For Stirling I highly recommend "Marching Through Georgia" as well as the "General" books he co-authored with Drake. >>



Haldeman, IIRC, also served in Vietnam . . . not sure where you're getting the gentleman soldier thing, because the troops in TFW are pretty far from it.

I've read Stirling's trilogy "Island on the Sea of Time", and like it, but nothing else by him. What else has he written?