The Forever War is an excellent and perennially popular work of space opera. Perhaps the only politician in any Republic with the power to unite humanity and evacuate it from the dying planet.īut it also might be the perfect way to start what she secretly years for: her own Empire.Īll Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries) by Martha Wells Or has Vesper, the mighty Republic to the North finally woken from its slumber? It has plenty of old scores to settle with Innocence’s City.įor Innocence, squashing the uprising could be the perfect way to end the most legendary military career Castillia has ever witnessed and begin a new, exhilarating life as a prominent politician. In fact, the exotic city used to belong to Ausonia and they have always wanted it back.īut could they really organize such a revolt between all their dancing and drinking? Sedition is an old trick the southern Republic, Ausonia, with its towering obsidian pyramids, is typically fond of. This is a stimulating way to grapple with epochal change in contrast to an individual subjectivity, and no doubt one of the main reasons why it won all the Hugo, Locus, and Nebula Awards.īoth piquant and ponderous, this is a space opera classic you just have to read.When a minor incident of insubordination at an exotic vacation city turns out to be the first tremors of a revolution, Castillia turns to its eleven-year old military prodigy Innocence and her loyal Guardians for help.Ĭastillia has enemies, that’s for sure. Due to the effects of space travel and the phenomenon known as “time dilation,” (turns out Einstein was right!) Private Mandella ages months while the earth he leaves behind while fighting ages centuries. The real magic of this novel is its exploration of aging and what it is like to grow old, to grow up a certain way embracing certain values, and be alive as a culture changes and embraces new and very different values.
He begins training at the edge of our solar system and is then sent to battle fronts against a mysterious alien civilization bent on destroying humanity. Private William Mandella is recruited to help fight in an interstellar war on far away planets with high-tech weaponry.
When a minor incident of insubordination at an exotic vacation city turns out to be the first tremors of a revolution, Castillia turns to its eleven-year old military prodigy Innocence and her loyal Guardians for help.Ĭastillia has enemies, that’s for sure.
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