Book description
Jacque LeFavre is a tamer - a member of one of the tough and honed
exploration teams that, since the dramatic discovery of the Levant-Meyer
Translation, humankind has been able to send to the stars. And Jacque's
first world is the second planet out from Groombridge 1618. It isn't an
especially promising place; the planets accompanying small stars rarely
pan out. But the strange and mysterious creature that Jacque and his
colleagues find there, with its gift of telepathy, leads to contact with
the alien and enigmatic L'vrai, and confronts humankind with an awesome
opportunity - and appalling danger. 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.
