A great sf novel, IMHO.
Looks like it’s the same price on all platforms, Amazon, Apple, Google, B&N, Kobo
I highly recommend this book.
Great book, it’s on my bookshelf.
A decent book, but I didn’t think it was worthy of the Hugo or the Nebula. It’s full of amateurish mistakes, and things that a professional writer should have done better.
Thanks! I’ve been meaning to read this book [del]forever[/del] for a long time. 
Just ordered it for my Kindle.
I recall fighting in space with sort of chain saws to rip the other guy’s suit open, and time dilation, if that is the correct term, from traveling at high velocities in space.
And thanks, Revtim. Do you get a kickback on the $1.99? 
Thanks. Bought.
Didn’t we have a thread about this book not too long ago?
Thanks, it’s been on my re-read list for a while. It’s a great book.
The first time I read this book, it made sense to me, but I felt like I was a little too well-educated to be reading such material.
When I went to read it a second time, though, the language somehow seemed hard to follow, although the book was clearly written in English. Also, it seemed a little more … “queer” to me than it had the first time.
Much, much later I re-read it yet again. The third time through, I felt completely out of place - it damn near killed me! By the time I was finished, all I wanted was to go some place far away where I felt like I could be among my own kind.
Thanks again, Revtim. Without pouring through the other thread, I think there was a different ending in the edition I read several years ago.
[spoiler]
Instead of returning to a world populated by clones, a third race stopped the war.
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Am I confusing another book?
Forever Free is not on Ebay, dammit!
Thank you for the head’s up!
Forever Free has the “third race” ending, Forever War has the “clone” ending. Given that they are sequels to each other it would be easy to confuse.
Thanks.
He must have sorted different editions out with different titles.
He gets the girl in the end of both!
It’s been several years since I read The Forever War, but I had a paperback that I read at home and then an e-book that I read during lunch at work. I remember they were quite different. The e-book had a lot more filler in the middle. So seems to me there are a couple versions of the book.
Forever Free is very much not the same book at The Forever War. One is a sequel to the other. Although as Barkis points out, there may be different editions anyway.
What does it deal with?
I’d had this on my list for years and finally read it last week. Perhaps it was groundbreaking in some concept back in the day, but I can’t imagine on what front. The only intriguing aspect was the concept of warriors returning decades or centuries after the war had ended. Other than that, it completely lacked engagement with me as well- and there were many directions it could have gone… and didn’t.
I see parallels to the Vietnam war now that I did not see in the 1970s.