Re: Top Ten List was Re: KV Language

Popeyesays@aol.com wrote:
> << 5. _The Forever War_ by Joe Haldeman. A classic! >>
> 
> IF you have Heinlein's Starship Troopers and Haldeman's Forever War
put them
> next to bookends on your sci-fi shelf - they are looks at war from two
> diametrically opposed points of view - no one who reads science
fiction or
> war fiction should consider himself well-read until he has read both.

	Agreed!

	STARSHIP TROOPERS is a very pro-military, right wing,
pre-Vietnam
	book.

	THE FOREVER WAR is a very anti-military, left wing, post-Vietnam
	book.

	IMHO of course.

	Somewhere in the middle is John Steakley's ARMOR.