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Old 07-01-2009, 10:15 AM   #14
glatt
 
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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey View Post
The Forever War, by Joe Haldeman. Excellent, but it suffers from the "year 2000" problem, where 2000 seemed so futuristic in the '70s.
great book. I got a kick out of how technology changed so quickly from their perspective because of relativity and space travel.

I don't remember the "year 2000" problem, but I read it in the 80's so 2000 was still a little over a decade away.
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