Subj : Re: The Forever War
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Trouble
Date : Tue Sep 06 2005 07:52:41

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Jim Larson wrote:

> Steve Brooks wrote:
>> Jim Larson wrote:
 
>>> Has anyone read this? Opinions?
 
>> Mostly good.  The ending feels a bit tacked on. Oh and I suppose it
>> is a bit dated. But thta applies to a lot of classic SF
 
> I'm a little more than halfway through. 

> So homosexuality is not only encouraged but enforced as a means of
> population control? 

You'll notice the society the protagonist comes from changes several 
times during his term of service, this is because he's lived a long damn 
time.

I'm sure he picked something appropriately radical for the 70's in order 
to show how different and alien everyone had become.


Don't their currencies change from dollars to kilocalories, etc, or am I 
thnking of a Heinlein book?


I've only seen WAR + Time Dialation done once in a visual medium, and it 
was an anime series called Gunbuster. By the time you went on one mission 
and came back all your friends would have aged considerably.

-- 
"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise.
Seek what they sought."
--Basho

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