The Forever War

The military’s engineered shift toward mandated homosexuality, meant to read as progress, strikes current readers as dated, one saying “The introduction and repetition of the idea of compulsory homosexuality was odd.” The deployments blur together across the time jumps, another complaining “The exact same thing kept happening over and over again.” Mandella is thin, “he’s just a cardboard cutout of a neckbeard’s persona” to one reviewer, who learns nothing beyond a stated high IQ. The prose is functional rather than beautiful, and the physics and tactical exposition reads dry to some of the same readers who admire the concepts. A blunter verdict: “This book did not age well. Like at all.”