The Forever War by Joe Haldeman (1974) For military science fiction, there can be no better example than Joe Haldeman’s The Forever War.  Not only does it show the life of a military grunt as he proceeds through the ranks, but it gives us a young man easy to relate to as he fights an alien enemy.  The novel is split into clever sections: Private, Sergeant, Lieutenant, and Major and takes us along on his life trip as he grows to be a man and […]