Also, this synopsis says something about an escape and traveling in time, and they did not stay on this planet in the version I listened to, but Mandela and one of his comrades did leave the planet with these clones, after Mandela received a letter from Marygay and so he flew to this planet called middle finger (?) to live happily ever after. These clones that had a shared mind and called themselves 'Man'. Like, I do remember Mandela and the others finally returning to earth to discover an evolved human race.

Then again I do remember things that were mentioned in the synopsis for book 3 - Forever free. I don’t remember any main character being called Julian Class… Except for the synopsis of book 2 Forever Peace. When reading the synopses of the three individual novels, they seemed familiar. Apparently, I listened to the audio book version of the omnibus for all three books in this trilogy, however, I don’t think I actually listened to all three books.

For Julian, the discovery isn't so much terrifying as tempting.Īnother audio book I listened, too. But he and his companion, Dr Amelia Harding, have discovered something that could literally take the universe back to square one. Julian Class is one of those soldiers, and for him war is truly hell. The Ngumi War rages, fought by 'soldierboys', indestructible machines operated remotely by soldiers hundreds of miles away. But when their ship starts to fail, their journey becomes a search for the unknown.Ģ043.

Living a dull life in an autocratic and intrusive society, missing the certainties of combat and feeling increasingly alienated, the veterans plan an escape.

When Mandella returns for the last time he finds humanity has evolved into a group mind called Man. Relativity means that everey time he returns home after a few months' tour of duty, centuries have passed on Earth, making him and his fellows ever more isolated from the world for whose future they are fighting. But his greatest test will come when he returns to Earth. William Mandella is a reluctant hero, drafted to fight in a distant interstellar war against unknowable and unconquerable aliens. Together in one volume for the first time ever his classic novel of epic future conflict, The Forever War, its sequel Forever Free, and the companion novel, Forever Peace.

The Forever War by Joe Haldeman