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Forever Free

By: Joe Haldeman
Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
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From Joe Haldeman, the all-time master of military science fiction, comes the new novel set in the universe of his Hugo and Nebula Award-winning classic The Forever War.

An epic story about war, peace, and the price of freedom, Forever Free reintroduces listeners to William Mandella - who has been living peacefully on the planet called Middle Finger, a refuge for humans who refuse to become part of the group mind known as Man. But after decades of this peace, Mandella and others are tired of living like zoo animals. So they steal a starship - and embark upon a voyage that will forever change their understanding of the universe, and themselves.

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Forever War was a sprawling political war epic in the tradition of Robert Heinlein. Forever Free is at once a smaller, personal story that, by the end, seems like a cosmic tale concocted by Aasimov, Clarke and Dick while sitting at a cafe with Serling in the Twilight Zone.

Different direction from Forever War

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A Literal Deus ex Machina - interesting premise, but author undermines it through lazy plot devices. A very far cry from the genius of the Forever War.

Literal Deus ex Machina

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If you can vet past the narrator its a decent book. preferred the firat book overall.

great book not so great narration

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The Forever War is an amazing piece of science fiction. It’s sequel; Forever Free… is not, the first 3 hours of this audiobook are decent. The book starts to drag towards its ending and then BOOM! Books over and the ending only slightly makes sense.

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Vets are mad about the future and try to skip in time to the future.
While our motley crew of whoever’s and Mandella’s family comes back in from their extended stay out in space
Jesus comes back, raptures all of existence than kills some people, resurrects them 3 sentences later. Gets angry that his creations don’t like being terminated and has a tantrum then fucks off to who knows where…THE END.

Explosive & messy ending.

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decides enough has been understood from the experiment of life, and intelligence.
When the elements created evolve the potentials for interesting possabilities the project gets interesting, but enough all ready. I'm done, the end.
Only the intelligences project an argument to let it be to continue.
OK, says the creator I'll let things run on without oversight;be back in a million years to see how you turn out.

The experiment begins with a bang, ends when God..

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Joe Haldeman is a great technical writer, describing the physics and theoretical physics well. The premise of traveling through time by approaching the speed of light is such an interesting take on time travel with actual science to back some of the fiction. I would recommend this to any sci-fi fan.

Great Ending to Forever War!!!

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Loved the story and overall thought the book was great. I couldn’t stand the narrator.

Good story unique premise

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The narrator was different than the Forever War and that took quite a while for me to get over, although he wasn't bad. The story was strange and left me missing the ending of the Forever War.

Not as good as the Forever War or Forever Peace.

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I grew to empathize with the characters from the Forever War through the narrator. That image was smashed to pieces from the performance of the narrator from Forever Peace. The anger and petulance heard in his voice of the main character was totally out of character, even for somebody who may have seemed to have turned cynical. I was forced to look past the performance because I wanted to complete the story. The story was enjoyable, although it seemed to have ended a bit too quickly and conveniently (as if they were playing music during the final scene of a movie :) ).

Disappointed either the narrator.

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I really thought this narrator didn't sound like the main character. Definitely not my mental image

Didn't like this narrator.

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