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Also similar concept, check out John Scalzi's Old man's war, follows that idea
Fantastic hard sci-fi book series. And it didn't focus on this one high concept but has lots of themes about humanity. PS: Apparently a TV series is under development!
I never really understood why people called it similar to The Forever War.
The "similar premise" is mostly just acknowledging that relativity is important to space travel.
Wait, Old Man's War has FTL? Or was it important for in-system battles? I haven't read them in a while.
I recently red The Star Carrier Series by Ian Douglas and that has FTL and interesting hard-sci fi battles with relativity effects.
I agree that the forever war is quite different in concept and style, much more esoterical.
OMW uses "skip drives" which are teleportation through multidimensional travel, time dilation is still a bit of a factor, but not nearly to the extent of The Forever War where it's practically the whole idea (as far as the science in the sci-fi goes)
Yeah that's how I remember it. The similar premise is that in both stories people leave earth and go on extended war campaigns.
Right, but that's like, half of science fiction!
There's also the terrific book, Immortality, Inc. by Robert Sheckley, a book I bought on a whim when killing time in a college bookstore with a tiny sci-fi section and have since recommended to many people who thanked me for the recommendation.
The concept is that in the future, it is discovered that there is an afterlife, but only a very small number of people can get there naturally. So a medical procedure is developed that allows people to get to the afterlife. However, only the wealthy can afford it. Once their afterlife is guaranteed (things can go wrong, but that's another issue), they do things like start hacking people to death in the streets to commit suicide-by-cop because what have they got to lose?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immortality,_Inc.