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- From: cameron@spectrum.cs.unsw.oz.au (Cameron Simpson)
- Subject: Re: Books wot I have read
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.023245.1397@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU>
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- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 02:32:45 GMT
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- | bill@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (William Logan Lee) writes:
- | >>_The Forever War_, Joe Haldeman
- | >Certainly a classic.
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- andy@research.canon.oz.au (Andy Newman) writes:
- | Sure is.
- | >whilst protecting (human) life, liberty and the American Way.
- | >_The Forever War_ depict a dehumanising pointless struggle for
- | pointless aims, much like the movie _Dark Star_, another anti-Vietnam SF work.
- |
- | Along similar lines is a book I love called "We All Died At Breakaway
- | Station". Can't recall the author [...]
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- Meredith. I'm reading it at the moment. Depressing, but good.
- - Cameron Simpson
- cameron@cse.unsw.edu.au, DoD 0743
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