{"id":1080,"date":"2009-09-28T20:49:34","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T00:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=1080"},"modified":"2009-09-28T20:49:34","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T00:49:34","slug":"monday-book-pick-the-forever-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/monday-book-pick\/monday-book-pick-the-forever-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Book Pick: The Forever War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0312536631\/eclipsswebwarren\">The Forever War<\/a><\/strong> by Joe Haldeman<\/p>\n<p>The classic anti-war military SciFi book seen by many as an answer to Robert Heinlein&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0441783589\/eclipsswebwarren\">Starship Troopers<\/a> (the <a href=\"http:\/\/eclipseweb.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/monday-book-pick.html\">Monday book pick from Feb. 9, 2009<\/a>).  Haldeman claims that isn&#8217;t how he wrote it, and Robert Heinlein thought it was a damn good good book.  An opinion I share.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/EWW\/goodreading\/monday_book_picks.html\">Monday Book Pick Archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Forever War by Joe Haldeman The classic anti-war military SciFi book seen by many as an answer to Robert Heinlein&#8217;s Starship Troopers (the Monday book pick from Feb. 9, 2009). Haldeman claims that isn&#8217;t how he wrote it, and Robert Heinlein thought it was a damn good good book. An opinion I share. Monday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,24],"tags":[165,527,532,664,696,697],"class_list":["post-1080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-book-pick","category-science-fiction","tag-book","tag-military-science-fiction","tag-monday-book-pick","tag-robert-heinlein","tag-science-fiction","tag-scifi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-hq","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}