Joe W Haldeman
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Forever series (Joe W. Haldeman) volume 1
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First published in 1974, this award-winning novel is the story of Private William Mandella, a reluctant conscript drafted into an elite military unit, and propelled through space and time to fight an unknown alien enemy in a distant thousand-year conflict. The true test of his mettle will come when he returns to Earth, which has aged centuries, while he has only aged months. Is it true that you never can go home?
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Series
Forever series (Joe W. Haldeman) volume 2
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The Ngumi War of 2043 is taking its toll on Julian Class, a soldier who operates an indestructible, remote controlled war machine known as a soldierboy, so when he and his lover make a startling scientific discovery that could set the universe back to the beginning of time, he is very tempted to try it out.
3) Marsbound
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[2008]
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Young Carmen Dula and her family are about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime--they're going to Mars. Once on the Red Planet, however, Carmen realizes things are not so different from Earth. There are chores to do, lessons to learn, and oppressive authority figures to rebel against. And when she ventures out into the bleak Mars landscape alone one night, a simple accident leads her to the edge of death until she is saved by an angel--an angel...
4) Guardian
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c2002
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The tale in which the future of humanity is intertwined with one woman's destiny.
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2005
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Jacob Brewer is a virtual reality engineer, over-seeing the time machine's operation aboard the starship Aspera. On a thousand-year voyage to Beta Hydrii, the eight hundred-member crew escapes the tedium of the trip within the artificial environment of twentieth-century Earth. But they get more reality than they expected when people entering the machine start to die.
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[2007]
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Grad-school dropout Matt Fuller is toiling as a lowly research assistant at MIT when, while measuring subtle quantum forces that relate to time changes in gravity and electromagnetic force, his calibrator turns into a time machine. With a dead-end job and a girlfriend who has left him for another man, Matt has nothing to lose taking a time machine trip himself-or so he thinks.
7) The coming
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Pub. Date
2000
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As Earth struggles to cope with the chaotic wake of a nuclear war, astronomy professor Aurora Bell receives a message from space that appears to announce the forthcoming arrival of an extraterrestrial invasion.
8) Old Venus
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[2015]
Description
"This original anthology of all-new stories harkens back to the Golden Age of SF, when science fiction was filled with tales from our own solar system, at a time when no one knew what lay on the surface of our nearest galactic neighbors and speculation ran rampant. And though that old solar system was "disproved" in the 1960s, when space probes showed that the real worlds were very different from those of our imaginations, these linked anthologies...