Book description
After the shocking first contact between humans and alien life on Mars,
Carmen Dula and her husband board a tiny, long-range craft with five
other humans and two Martians. They travel to a distant solar system
that is home to the "Others" - an enigmatic, powerful, and
possibly immortal race. Once there, they manage to find enough common
purpose to forge a delicate truce between human, Martian, and Other.
By the time Carmen and her party are sent back to Earth, fifty years
have passed - and the Earthlings have not been idle. They have built a
massive flotilla of warships to defend Earth against the Others'
expected aggression. But the Others have more power than any could
imagine.
And they will brook no insolence from the upstart human race... Joe
Haldeman (1943 - )
Joe William Haldeman was born in Oklahoma City in 1943. He holds
degrees in physics and astronomy, and served as a combat engineer in
Vietnam, where he was severely wounded and earned a Purple Heart. This
experience informed his best known work, the Hugo and Nebula
Award-winning The Forever War. He is one of SF's most decorated authors,
boasting 5 Hugos, 5 Nebulas, the World Fantasy Award, the John W.
Campbell Memorial and James Tiptree, Jr Awards and the SFWA Grand Master
Award amongst many others. In addition to continuing to produce top
quality SF, Joe Haldeman teaches writing at MIT.
