The Forever War, the Glossary

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1. 68 relations: Anagram, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Avatar (2009 film), Avon (publisher), BoardGameGeek, Bruce A. Young, Channing Tatum, Charon (moon), Deadline Hollywood, Epsilon Aurigae, Far Horizons, Forever Free (novel), Forever Peace, Graphic novel, Hugo Award, Hugo Award for Best Novel, Hypnosis, Intelligence quotient, Interstellar war, Iowa Writers' Workshop, James Cameron, Joe Haldeman, John Scalzi, Jon Spaihts, Light-year, Locus Award, Locus Award for Best Novel, Los Angeles Times, Marvano, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Matthew Michael Carnahan, Mayfair Games, Military science fiction, Moon, Nebula Award, Nebula Award for Best Novel, Organic Theater Company, Orion Publishing Group, Pluto, Polynesians, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Return of the Jedi, Richard Edlund, Ridley Scott, Robert A. Heinlein, Robert Silverberg, Robin Williams, Scott Free Productions, SF Masterworks, Space opera, ... Expand index (18 more) »

2. 1974 science fiction novels
3. Anti-war novels
4. Fiction about time dilation
5. Fiction about trans-Neptunian objects
6. Novels by Joe Haldeman

Anagram

An anagram is a word or phrase formed by rearranging the letters of a different word or phrase, typically using all the original letters exactly once.

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Analog Science Fiction and Fact

Analog Science Fiction and Fact is an American science fiction magazine published under various titles since 1930.

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Avatar (2009 film)

Avatar is a 2009 epic science fiction film directed, written, co-produced, and co-edited by James Cameron.

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Avon (publisher)

Avon Publications is one of the leading publishers of romance fiction.

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BoardGameGeek

BoardGameGeek (BGG) is an online forum for board gaming hobbyists and a game database that holds reviews, images and videos for over 125,600 different tabletop games, including European-style board games, wargames, and card games.

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Bruce A. Young

Bruce Arlington Young (born April 22, 1956) is an American television, film, and stage actor and screenwriter.

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Channing Tatum

Channing Matthew Tatum (born April 26, 1980) is an American actor.

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Charon (moon)

Charon, or (134340) Pluto I, is the largest of the five known natural satellites of the dwarf planet Pluto.

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Deadline Hollywood

Deadline Hollywood, commonly known as Deadline and also referred to as Deadline.com, is an online news site founded as the news blog Deadline Hollywood Daily by Nikki Finke in 2006.

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Epsilon Aurigae

Epsilon Aurigae (ε Aurigae, abbreviated Epsilon Aur, ε Aur) is a multiple star system in the northern constellation of Auriga, the charioteer.

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Far Horizons

Far Horizons: All New Tales from the Greatest Worlds of Science Fiction is an anthology of original science fiction stories edited by Robert Silverberg, first published in hardcover by Avon Eos in May 1999, with a book club edition following from Avon and the Science Fiction Book Club in July of the same year.

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Forever Free (novel)

Forever Free is a science fiction novel by American author Joe Haldeman, the sequel to The Forever War. The Forever War and Forever Free (novel) are novels by Joe Haldeman.

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Forever Peace

Forever Peace is a 1997 science fiction novel by Joe Haldeman. The Forever War and Forever Peace are Hugo Award for Best Novel-winning works, military science fiction novels, Nebula Award for Best Novel-winning works and novels by Joe Haldeman.

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Graphic novel

A graphic novel is a long-form work of sequential art.

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Hugo Award

The Hugo Award is an annual literary award for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year, given at the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) and chosen by its members.

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Hugo Award for Best Novel

The Hugo Award for Best Novel is one of the Hugo Awards given each year for science fiction or fantasy stories published in, or translated to, English during the previous calendar year. The Forever War and Hugo Award for Best Novel are Hugo Award for Best Novel-winning works.

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Hypnosis

Hypnosis is a human condition involving focused attention (the selective attention/selective inattention hypothesis, SASI), reduced peripheral awareness, and an enhanced capacity to respond to suggestion.

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Intelligence quotient

An intelligence quotient (IQ) is a total score derived from a set of standardised tests or subtests designed to assess human intelligence.

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Interstellar war

An interstellar war is a hypothetical space war between combatants from different planetary systems.

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Iowa Writers' Workshop

The Iowa Writers' Workshop, at the University of Iowa, is a graduate-level creative writing program.

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James Cameron

James Francis Cameron (born August 16, 1954) is a Canadian filmmaker.

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Joe Haldeman

Joe William Haldeman (born June 9, 1943) is an American science fiction author.

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John Scalzi

John Michael Scalzi II (born May 10, 1969) is an American science fiction author and former president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.

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Jon Spaihts

Jon Spaihts (born February 4, 1970) is an American screenwriter and author.

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Light-year

A light-year, alternatively spelled light year (ly or lyr), is a unit of length used to express astronomical distances and is equal to exactly 9,460,730,472,580.8 km (Scientific notation: 9.4607304725808 × 1012 km), which is approximately 5.88 trillion mi.

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Locus Award

The Locus Awards are an annual set of literary awards voted on by readers of the science fiction and fantasy magazine Locus, a monthly magazine based in Oakland, California.

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Locus Award for Best Novel

Winners of the Locus Award for Best Novel, one of several discontinued Locus Awards, awarded by Locus magazine.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.

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Marvano

Mark van Oppen (Zolder, Belgium, 29 April 1953) better known as Marvano, is a Belgian comic artist.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Matthew Michael Carnahan

Matthew Michael Carnahan (sometimes credited as Matt Carnahan) is an American screenwriter.

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Mayfair Games

Mayfair Games was an American publisher of board, card, and roleplaying games that also licensed Euro-style board games to publish them in English.

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Military science fiction

Military science fiction is a subgenre of science fiction and military fiction that depicts the use of science fiction technology, including spaceships and weapons, for military purposes and usually principal characters who are members of a military organization, usually during a war; occurring sometimes in outer space or on a different planet or planets.

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Moon

The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite.

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Nebula Award

The Nebula Awards annually recognize the best works of science fiction or fantasy published in the United States.

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Nebula Award for Best Novel

The Nebula Award for Best Novel is given each year by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) for science fiction or fantasy novels.

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Organic Theater Company

Organic Theater Company was founded in 1969 in Madison, Wisconsin by artistic director Stuart Gordon and his wife Carolyn Purdy Gordon.

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Orion Publishing Group

Orion Publishing Group Ltd.

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Pluto

Pluto (minor-planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune.

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Polynesians

Polynesians are an ethnolinguistic group comprising closely related ethnic groups native to Polynesia, which encompasses the islands within the Polynesian Triangle in the Pacific Ocean.

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Raiders of the Lost Ark

Raiders of the Lost Ark is a 1981 American action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg from a screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan, based on a story by George Lucas and Philip Kaufman.

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Return of the Jedi

Return of the Jedi (also known as Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi is a 1983 American epic space opera film that is a sequel to Star Wars (1977) and The Empire Strikes Back (1980). It is the third installment in the original ''Star Wars'' trilogy and the sixth chronological film in the "Skywalker Saga".

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Richard Edlund

Richard Edlund, (born December 6, 1940) is an American visual effects artist and inventor.

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Ridley Scott

Sir Ridley Scott (born 30 November 1937) is an English filmmaker.

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Robert A. Heinlein

Robert Anson Heinlein (July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) was an American science fiction author, aeronautical engineer, and naval officer.

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Robert Silverberg

Robert Silverberg (born January 15, 1935) is an American author and editor, best known for writing science fiction.

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Robin Williams

Robin McLaurin Williams (July 21, 1951August 11, 2014) was an American actor and comedian.

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Scott Free Productions

Scott Free Productions is a British-American independent film and television production company founded in 1970 by filmmakers and brothers Ridley Scott and Tony Scott.

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SF Masterworks

SF Masterworks is a series of science fiction novel reprints published by UK-based company Orion Publishing Group, a subsidiary of Hachette UK.

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Space opera

Space opera is a subgenre of science fiction that emphasizes space warfare, with use of melodramatic, risk-taking space adventures, relationships, and chivalric romance.

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Special relativity

In physics, the special theory of relativity, or special relativity for short, is a scientific theory of the relationship between space and time.

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Speed of light

The speed of light in vacuum, commonly denoted, is a universal physical constant that is exactly equal to). According to the special theory of relativity, is the upper limit for the speed at which conventional matter or energy (and thus any signal carrying information) can travel through space.

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Spider Robinson

Spider Robinson (born November 24, 1948) is an American-born Canadian science fiction author.

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St. Martin's Press

St.

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Star Wars (film)

Star Wars (later retitled Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope) is a 1977 American epic space opera film written and directed by George Lucas, produced by Lucasfilm and distributed by Twentieth Century-Fox.

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Starship Troopers

Starship Troopers is a military science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein. The Forever War and Starship Troopers are Hugo Award for Best Novel-winning works, military science fiction novels and novels first published in serial form.

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Stasis (fiction)

A stasis or stasis field, in science fiction, is a confined area of space in which time has been stopped or the contents have been rendered motionless.

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State of Play (film)

State of Play is a 2009 political thriller film directed by Kevin Macdonald.

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Stuart Gordon

Stuart Alan Gordon (August 11, 1947 – March 24, 2020) was an American filmmaker, theatre director, screenwriter, and playwright.

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The Empire Strikes Back

The Empire Strikes Back (also known as Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back) is a 1980 American epic space opera film directed by Irvin Kershner from a screenplay by Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan, based on a story by George Lucas.

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The Forever War (board game)

The Forever War is a board game published by Mayfair Games in 1983.

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The Forever War (comics)

The Forever War is a 1988 Belgian science fiction graphic novel trilogy drawn by Marvano and closely based on the award-winning The Forever War novel by Joe Haldeman, who has noted that he "supplied all of the dialogue and scripted like a movie".

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The Forever War series

The Forever War series is a series of science fiction novels by Joe Haldeman.

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Time dilation

Time dilation is the difference in elapsed time as measured by two clocks, either because of a relative velocity between them (special relativity), or a difference in gravitational potential between their locations (general relativity).

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Victor Gollancz Ltd

Victor Gollancz Ltd was a major British book publishing house of the twentieth century and continues to publish science fiction and fantasy titles as an imprint of Orion Publishing Group.

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Vietnam War

The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.

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Warner Bros.

Warner Bros.

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20th Century Studios

20th Century Studios, Inc. is an American film studio owned by the Walt Disney Studios, a division of Disney Entertainment, in turn a division of The Walt Disney Company.

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See also

1974 science fiction novels

• A Song for Lya (novella)
• Arena of Antares
• Concrete Island
• Danny Dunn, Invisible Boy
• Das Königsprojekt
• Dhalgren
• Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
• High Crystal
• House of Stairs (Sleator novel)
• Icerigger
• Invalidní sourozenci
• Inverted World
• Les Dames à la licorne
• Manhounds of Antares
• Monument (novel)
• On Venus, Have We Got a Rabbi!
• Polymath (novel)
• Prince of Scorpio
• The Asutra
• The Bladerunner
• The Centauri Device
• The Dispossessed
• The Dream Millennium
• The Fall of Chronopolis
• The Fall of Colossus
• The Forever War
• The Godwhale
• The Gray Prince
• The Land Leviathan: A New Scientific Romance
• The Last Canadian
• The Memoirs of a Survivor
• The Mote in God's Eye
• The Rats (novel)
• The Reincarnation of Peter Proud (novel)
• The Soul of the Robot
• The Texas-Israeli War: 1999
• The Twilight of Briareus
• The Valley Where Time Stood Still
• Typescript of the Second Origin
• Web of Everywhere
• Wild Jack
• Z for Zachariah

Anti-war novels

• A Farewell to Arms
• All Quiet on the Western Front
• Born on a Tuesday
• Cat's Cradle
• Catch-22
• Celestial Matters
• Clérambault (novel)
• Company K
• Die Brücke (novel)
• Die Waffen nieder!
• Fires on the Plain (novel)
• From Here to Eternity (novel)
• Generals Die in Bed
• Going After Cacciato
• Hiroshima (book)
• Jingo (novel)
• Johnny Got His Gun
• Letters from Wolfie
• Militarized Streets
• Not So Quiet: Stepdaughters of War
• On the Beach (novel)
• Regeneration (novel)
• Return of the Brute
• Schlump (novel)
• Slaughterhouse-Five
• Sozaboy
• The Big War
• The Forever War
• The Good Soldier Švejk
• The Long March (novel)
• The Quiet American
• The Road Back
• The Short-Timers
• The Sojourn
• The Starlight Barking
• The Thin Red Line (novel)
• The Tin Drum
• The Unknown Soldier (novel)
• The Word for World Is Forest
• Three Soldiers
• To the End of the Land
• Two Women (novel)
• Vida (novel)
• War Porn
• War with the Newts
• Winged Victory (novel)

Fiction about time dilation

• Andromeda (TV series)
• Comali
• Interstellar (film)
• Lightyear (film)
• Narnia (world)
• Planet of the Apes (1968 film)
• Planet of the Apes (novel)
• Tau Zero
• The Chronicles of Narnia
• The Doctor Falls
• The Forever War
• Voices of a Distant Star
• World Enough and Time (Doctor Who)

Fiction about trans-Neptunian objects

• Black Moon Clan
• Galileo's Dream
• Known Space
• Rendezvous with Rama
• Saturn's Children (novel)
• Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy
• The Borderland of Sol
• The Forever War
• The Puppet Masters

Novels by Joe Haldeman

• Camouflage (novel)
• Forever Free (novel)
• Forever Peace
• The Accidental Time Machine
• The Forever War
• The Hemingway Hoax
• Tool of the Trade

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Forever_War

Also known as Marygay Potter, The Forever War (film).

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