The story of a club

Our next book, to be discussed beginning March 15, will be Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy by Paul Hendrickson. It is the true story of the men in this photograph.

In a related story

This story goes well with the book.

Science experiment

I get the impression most of not all of you don't read a lot of sci-fi. How did this book measure to your expectations? How does it compare to other science fiction you might have read?

War, what is it good for?

What did you think Haldeman was trying to say about war? Would you call this an antiwar book? Or is it pro-war with a comment on how veterans are treated or misunderstood?

Landing on Uranus

What did you think of Haldeman's treatment of heterosexuality and homosexuality? And did the promiscuity of the soldiers seem realistic, or did it date the story as something written in the late '60s or early '70s?

'90s remix

My edition of "The Forever War" is the rerelease from 2001. Haldeman explains in the foreward that an earlier reprinting tried to change all of the dates, but it really just screwed everything up and it ended up with confusing anachronisms. He instructs readers to just think of it as an alternate reality that happened a decade ago. Were you able to do this, or were references to the '90s distracting?

Timely traveler

Joe Haldeman wrote "The Forever War" as a metaphor for his experiences as a veteran of the Vietnam War. The war was ongoing as the work was published. Having read it with the benefot of hindsight more than thirty years after the war, how successful was he? And how much do you think the book applies to today's wars and what our vets might be going through?

"The Forever War"

When do we start discussing "The Forever War"? Would that be the 15th?