Book description
Towards the end of the twenty-first century 41 Worlds, small satellites
with a total population of half a million, orbit the Earth, which has
seen many changes, not least of which is a second revolution in America.
Marianne O'Hara, a brilliant political sciences student, is from New New
York, a hollowed out asteroid and the largest of the Worlds, but is to
spend a year on Earth as a postgraduate student. Because the political
relationship between the Worlds and Earth is complex and voltatile,
Marianne unwittingly finds herself caught up with a group of fanatics
determined on a third revolution in America - even if such a revolution
could lead to the destruction of the Earth... Joe Haldeman was born in
Oklahoma in 1943 and studied physics and astronomy before serving as a
combat engineer in Vietnam, where he was severely wounded and won a
Purple Heart. The Forever War was his first SF novel and it won both the
Hugo and Nebula awards, a feat which The Forever Peace repeated. He is
also the author of, among others, Mindbridge, All My Sins Remembered,
Worlds, Worlds Apart and Worlds Enough and Time.
