Thursday, February 18, 2010

Forever Peace, by Joe Haldeman

Had to stop reading this one; the cover seemed promising (just think of the promise of the title!) but 2/3 of the way through, still pretty much just sex and violence. There is probably a big plot twist coming but I'm not going read through more of it to get there.

Cosma Shalizi's "Three Toed Sloth" weblog recommended "Bitter Angels" as a military scifi that didn't bother him, and I second that, though it's a little contrived with lots of nonlethal but still pretty bad weapons OK for the heroine.