Re: Near-Topic: G forces

On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 12:27:17PM -0800, Brian Bilderback wrote:

>Back on the topic of G's and C and space combat, a friend of mine once 
>recommended a book titled "Forever War."  Has anyone read it, and can
they 
>tell me who the author was?

Joe Haldeman; it's basically "Vietnam in space" with some tweaks to make
it a bit more interesting (mostly, extremes of time dilation so that the
troops come home a long time after they'd expected to). Not one of my
favourites, though a lot of other people think it's wonderful.