Forever Free by Joe HaldemanMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Like it or not, we plunge forward into the unknown future. If you don't like where things are going, why not tap out for a bit - and try again in 40,000 years? (If you can make it...)
While the critics seem divided on this one, I was blown away. Forever Free is brimming with ideas, and takes all the ideas introduced in Forever War into new territory and permutations. Like Orson Scott Card's Ender series, Haldeman writes strange and fascinating societies, systems, species and philosophies - and not through dry, world-building exposition, but as a conversation about what it means to be human.
William Mandella (kinda sounds like Haldeman backwards, don't it?) is a charming narrator. Raised by hippie parents in a 1970s nudist camp, he remains indelibly, reassuringly human even as the very nature of existence is called into question.
Sci-fi fans: read these books! (While this is called Forever War #3, apparently the middle one, Forever Peace, is standalone. This picks up shortly after Forever War #1 left off.)
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