Subj : Re: The Forever War
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : weirdwolf
Date : Tue Sep 06 2005 13:08:26

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Trouble <troubleNOSPAM@tekfactory.com> wrote in
news:a8mdnSw9H4WUHoDeRVn-jA@comcast.com: 

> 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.
> 

There were a series of stories in a comic over here called 200OAd about a 
young womant/girl called Hallo Jones. She starts off on a floaing ring 
habitat for the unemployed filled with various druggies and violent 
gangs. She manages to escape into space, eventually getting stuck in the 
armpit of the universe and progressively more drunk she joins the army. 
After a stint on a world with a petrified forest she ends up on the worst 
combat zone in the galaxy, a heavy gravity planet. The have to wear suits 
to fight and when they come back after a mission they find the 
months/weeks have passed in their sheilded bases. The upshot of this is 
so although on base time they have served the enlisted period in the 
soldiers personal timeline only hours have passed. Guess which one the 
army uses to calculate how long they have left to serve? On one mission 
they go out onto the surface and the laser fire etc stop, the squad all 
go back to the base, finding only a native cleaner guy with a brush 
telling them hostilities stopped weeks ago and that he is all that is 
left. They were a really good set of stories, a major slice of the first 
"book" was basically all about going shopping. 
 Ted
-- 
Stare too long into the abyss and the abyss looks like a nifty place to 
hide the bodies

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