A review by blairconrad
Forever Peace by Joe Haldeman

2.0

Disappointing. Poorly written, I thought, with a grab bag of concepts (robo soldiers, mind melds, sex, replicators, racism, PTSD, cults, kumbaya) thrown together without a unifying theme, or even coherent direction. Maybe it suffers by comparison to the other entries I've been reading (written by women, and a few years later), but the book feels like one of the earlier entries in my "joint Hugo/Nebula reread" list, to the point where I had to constantly recheck that this was written in 1997, and I wasn't just reading the 25th anniversary reprint.

(Also, what's with the 1st person/3rd person switches? Confusing, and I couldn't see the point of them.)