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Title: Good at what it is.
Review: Not literature, but a good punchy story. Haldeman tells the tale of a soldier fighting a lightspeed campaign who finds himself increasingly isolated from the society he is fighting to protect. This isolation is caused by the enormous spans of years that pass on earth relative to his few months on campaign. Each battle is a huge gamble since neither side knows if they are fighting troops from last week or from one hundred years ago. Technology changes at breakneck speed and language, customs and social mores change at the same rate. This is a frightening and thought provoking image of interstellar war told in a spare and direct style. There is a heavy focus on the tools of war and the armour suits which save your life by lobbing off limbs here and there during battle. A good short read.
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