Forever Peace

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0441004067 ISBN 13: 9780441004065

Publisher: Ace Hardcover, 1997

In 2043, the war is still raging on and life on Earth is slowly coming to an end, but when Julian and his lover, Dr. Amelia Harding, make a great scientific discovery, they quickly devise a plan to end the destruction by stopping the indestructible war machines once and for all.

Review:

Julian Class is a full-time professor and part-time combat veteran who spends a third of each month virtually wired to a robotic "soldierboy." The soldierboys, along with flyboys and other advanced constructs, allow the U.S. to wage a remotely controlled war against constant uprisings in the Third World. The conflicts are largely driven by the so-called First World countries' access to nanoforges--devices that can almost instantly manufacture any product imaginable, given the proper raw materials--and the Third World countries' lack of access to these devices. But even as Julian learns that the consensual reality shared by soldierboy operators can lead to universal peace, the nanoforges create a way for humanity to utterly destroy itself, and it will be a race against time to see which will happen first. Although Forever Peace bears a title similar to Joe Haldeman's classic novel The Forever War, he says it's not a sequel.

About the Author:

Joe Haldeman is currently an adjunct professor teaching writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.